{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026/regulation-34.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaping Products (Production, Duty Stamps and Commencement) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaping-products-production-duty-stamps-and-commencement-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Exceptions to requirement for scanning",
  "text": "(1) Duty stamps need not be scanned where paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) either—\n(i) the scanning equipment of any person responsible for scanning those stamps, or\n(ii) the duty stamps system,\nis unusable at the time of a scanning event relating to those stamps;\n(b) it is not possible to scan those stamps on import into the United Kingdom;\n(c) after the first scanning event, the visible feature of those stamps that ought to be capable of being scanned fails;\n(d) those stamps have been, or immediately will be—\n(i) affixed to vaping products, and\n(ii) aggregated with other duty stamps;\n(e) any other event occurs that the Commissioners have specified in a notice published by them as being relevant for the purposes of this regulation.\n(3) Save as the Commissioners may otherwise allow, any data that would have been uploaded to the duty stamps system by scanning those stamps must, at the time those stamps were otherwise required to have been scanned under regulation 32 or 33, be—\n(a) uploaded by other means to the duty stamps system where paragraph (2)(a)(i), (b), (c), (d) or (e) applies;\n(b) provided by other means to the stamp issuer where paragraph (2)(a)(ii) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/331/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:41.887471+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."
}