{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1712",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Registration of factories",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioners may, subject to such conditions as appear necessary for the protection of the revenue, register that part of any premises where tobacco products are manufactured and premises that have been so registered will be known as a registered factory.\n(1A) Premises registered by the Commissioners under this regulation must not be occupied by more than one manufacturer of tobacco products.\n(2) Tobacco products may only be manufactured in a registered factory.\n(3) Paragraph (2) above does not apply to premises that are to be used only for the manufacture of tobacco products for the purposes of research or experiment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1A) inserted (1.8.2006) by The Tobacco Products and Excise Goods (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1787), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1712/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:49:27.864433+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}