| Guvnor

Enforced by: Trading Standards
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 11 of 13 obligations carry a criminal penalty. 1 carries different penalties and 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person11 Director or Officer1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 482 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.002 Prohibition of tobacco advertising Regulated

Publish, print, devise or distribute tobacco advertisementsAny Person

s.003 Advertising: newspapers, periodicals Regulated

Publish or sell a publication containing tobacco advertisementAny Person

s.003 Advertising: information society services Regulated

Publish or procure tobacco advertisement via online serviceAny Person

s.007 Prohibition of tobacco displays Regulated

Display tobacco products in the course of businessAny Person

s.007 Displays: prices of tobacco products Regulated

Display tobacco prices in breach of regulationsAny Person

s.007 Displays on a website Regulated

Breach rules on displaying tobacco products on a websiteAny Person

s.008 Displays: Scotland Regulated

Fail to comply with Scottish tobacco display regulationsAny Person

s.009 Prohibition of free distributions Regulated

Give away free products or coupons to promote tobaccoAny Person

s.010 Prohibition of sponsorship Regulated

Be party to sponsorship agreement promoting tobaccoAny Person

s.013 Enforcement Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Enforcement authorities must enforce tobacco advertising and promotion rulesLocal authority

s.015 Obstruction, etc of officers Regulated

Obstruct or give false information to a Trading Standards officerAny Person

s.016 Penalties Prosecution

Breach tobacco advertising and promotion rulesAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.018 Offences by bodies corporate and Scottish partnerships Regulated

Officer consents to or neglects corporate tobacco offenceDirector or Officer

17 other provisions — procedural and definitional

sch. para. 2 sch. para. 2

sch. para. 3 sch. para. 3

sch. para. 4 sch. para. 4

s.001 Meaning of “tobacco advertisement” and “tobacco product”

s.004 Advertising: exclusions

s.005 Advertising: defences

s.006 Specialist tobacconists

s.007 Developments in technology

s.007 Tobacco displays: exclusions and defence

s.011 Brandsharing

s.012 Television and radio broadcasting

s.014 Powers of entry, etc

s.017 Defences: burden of proof

s.019 Regulations

s.020 Transitional provisions: sponsorship

s.021 Interpretation

s.022 Commencement, short title and extent

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires