{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailers-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailers-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-retailers-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Duty to notify certain changes",
  "text": "(1) A registered person must give the registration authority notice of—\n(a) any change in the person's name or address;\n(b) the fact that the person is no longer carrying on a tobacco business at an address noted in the person's entry in the Register ;\n(c) the fact that the person is no longer carrying on a vaping product business at an address noted in the person’s entry in the Register;\n(d) the fact that the person is no longer carrying on a nicotine product business at an address noted in the person’s entry in the Register.\n(2) The notice must be given within 28 days of the date of the change to which it relates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(1)(c)(d) and semicolon inserted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), s. 175(8), Sch. 10 para. 5; S.R. 2026/152, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in operation at 6.4.2016 by S.R. 2016/101, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/4/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:32:29.663694+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."
}