Regulation 12 Insertion of new regulation 24A

After regulation 24 (administration of communications and providing samples) insert—

“Investigations and information

24A.

(1)

A local enforcement authority may investigate compliance with regulation 6(1), and for this purpose it may carry out inspections of tobacco products.

(2)

Where a local enforcement authority considers there is evidence of contravention of regulation 6(1), it may pass that evidence to the Commissioners.

(3)

In this regulation “local enforcement authority” means—

(a)

in Great Britain, a local weights and measures authority within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985^f1;

(b)

in Northern Ireland, a district council.”.