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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-amendment-regulations-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/606",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019 (the Traceability Regulations) to provide sanctions for failure to comply with specified elements of those Regulations.\nRegulations 1 and 2 are introductory provisions. Regulation 3 amends the definitions provision in the Traceability Regulations. Regulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the Traceability Regulations to provide that the supply of tobacco products extends to cases where the supply does not occur in the course of a business, and to cases where the owner or manager of the business causes or allows the supply.\nRegulation 5 extends the circumstances in which economic operator identifier codes (EOIDs) can be deactivated, and provides for the suspension of deactivation pending appeal in specified cases. Regulation 6 provides for the deactivation of facility identifier codes (FIDs). Regulation 7 extends the circumstances in which applications for reactivation of an EOID (following a deactivation) are not permitted, and makes provision for restricting reapplications for FIDs.\nRegulation 8 inserts new provisions for financial penalties. Regulation 9 provides for the forfeiture of compliant tobacco products in specified cases where non-compliant products are also forfeited. Regulation 10 provides for circumstances in which liability to a sanction does not arise. Regulation 11 provides for appeals against decisions on financial penalties.\nRegulation 12 provides that a local enforcement authority (trading standards) may implement specified aspects of these Regulations.\nA Tax Information and Impact Note covering this instrument will be published on the website at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tax-information-and-impact-notes-tiins.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/606/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:36.789675+00:00"
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  "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."
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