{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/594",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-traceability-and-security-features-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prohibition from supply of non-compliant tobacco products",
  "text": "(1) A person must not supply tobacco products in any part of the United Kingdom unless those products meet the requirements in paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) The unit packet of a tobacco product must be marked with a unique identifier that—\n(a) has been issued by , or has been paired with a unique identifier that has been issued by, the UK ID Issuer and meets the technical specifications set out in Chapters II and IV of the Commission Implementing Regulation, and\n(b) meets the requirements in—\n(i) regulation 7(2), or\n(ii) in cases where the unique identifier has been applied by a person outside the United Kingdom, regulation 7(2) as if it applied to that person .\n(3) All movements of, and all transactions relating to, the unit packet of a tobacco product must have been recorded and transmitted in accordance with Chapter VI of the Commission Implementing Regulation.\n(4) The unit packet of a tobacco product must carry a security feature.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 7(a) (with regs. 8, 9, 10(2)-(5), 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2)(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 7(b) (with regs. 8, 9, 10(2)-(5), 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2)(b)(ii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 7(c) (with regs. 8, 9, 10(2)-(5), 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 6(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 7(d) (with regs. 8, 9, 10(2)-(5), 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 20.5.2019, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/594/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:44:14.938409+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."
}