{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailer-fixed-penalty-amount-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailer-fixed-penalty-amount-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2026/171",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Retailer (Fixed Penalty) (Amount) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailer-fixed-penalty-amount-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Tobacco Retailer (Fixed Penalty) (Amount) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (“the Regulations”).\nRegulation 3 and 4 amend the 2016 Regulations to refer to “herbal smoking products” in addition to “tobacco products” as well as prescribing the amount of fixed penalties for certain new tobacco product and herbal smoking product related offences under the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.\nRegulation 5 amends the provisions in the 2016 Regulations relating to the registration of tobacco retailers, so they also apply to retailers of vaping and nicotine products by referring to a “registrable” business and prescribes the amount of fixed penalties for the related offences under the Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.\nThe amendments made by regulation 3 come into operation on 29th October 2026 and substitute the Schedule in the 2016 Regulations. Amendments to that substituted schedule are made by regulation 4 and 5 and are effective from 1st January 2027 and 1st March 2027 respectively.\nRegulation 6 revokes The Tobacco Retailer (Fixed Penalty) (Amount) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (SR ).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2026/171/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:32:37.625439+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."
}