{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-12.json",
  "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": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Insertion of new regulation 24A",
  "text": "After regulation 24 (administration of communications and providing samples) insert—\n“Investigations and information\n24A. (1) A local enforcement authority may investigate compliance with regulation 6(1), and for this purpose it may carry out inspections of tobacco products.\n(2) Where a local enforcement authority considers there is evidence of contravention of regulation 6(1), it may pass that evidence to the Commissioners.\n(3) In this regulation “local enforcement authority” means—\n(a) in Great Britain, a local weights and measures authority within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985;\n(b) in Northern Ireland, a district council.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 72: section 69 was amended by Part 4 of Schedule 1 to the Statute Law Repeals Act 1989 (c. 43), paragraph 75 of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and paragraph 144 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/606/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:36.789675+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."
}