- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 28 of 82 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 30 carry different penalties and 24 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 20 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Trader — also bound by 825 other Acts
Applicant — also bound by 307 other Acts
Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts
Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts
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.
- Sell tobacco products to a person born on or after 1 Jan 2009Any Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Buy tobacco products on behalf of a minor (born after 2008)Any Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Allow tobacco vending machine on premisesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Sell cigarettes without original packagingAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Fail to display age of sale notice at point of saleAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Fail to display age of sale notice at point of sale in WalesAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Manufacture banned oral tobacco productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell or offer snus for saleAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess snus with intent to supply in businessAny Person
- Sell vaping or nicotine products to under 18sAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Allow vape or nicotine vending machine on premisesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Welsh Ministers must consult before making display regulations for tobacco and vapesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Free distribution or discount of tobacco/vaping products to promote themAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Obtain a licence before selling tobacco, vaping or nicotine products in EnglandTrader
Unlimited fine
- Breach of tobacco/vape licence conditionsAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Get a personal licence to sell tobacco or vapes in WalesTrader
Unlimited fine
- Breach of licence conditions (Wales) – financial penaltyAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Notify interested persons before applying for a restricted premises orderApplicant
- Sell goods in breach of a restricted premises orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to comply with a restricted sale orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Allow or neglect to prevent a body's tobacco/vapes offenceDirector or Officer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must consider enforcement programme annuallyLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must consider enforcement programme against tobacco and vape offences annuallyLocal authority
- Sell unpackaged cigarettesAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Comply with regulations on warning statement notice size and appearanceAny Person
- Manufacture a relevant oral tobacco product (snus)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell or offer snus for saleAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess snus with intent to supplyAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Permit use of prohibited vending machine on premisesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Give away or discount tobacco/vaping products to promote themAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell tobacco or vapes to underage customersAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Buy tobacco products on behalf of underage personAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Allow tobacco vending machine on premisesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell unpackaged cigarettesAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Fail to display age of sale notice in tobacco shopAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Manufacture snus or other oral tobacco productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell or offer snus (oral tobacco product)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess oral tobacco product with intent to supplyAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Sell vaping or nicotine products to under 18sAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Buy vaping or nicotine products for someone under 18Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Allow vape or nicotine product vending machine on premisesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Free distribution or discount of tobacco/vaping products to promote themAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- District councils must annually consider enforcement programme for tobacco/vapesLocal authority
- Sell tobacco/vapes without a licenceAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Crown may be bound by regulations but cannot face criminal prosecutionCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must consult appropriate persons before making regulationsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must obtain consent from devolved administrations before making regulationsCrown / Minister / Government department
- Publish prohibited tobacco or vaping advertisementsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Design prohibited advertisements for tobacco or vaping productsAny Person
- Print advertisements for tobacco, vaping or nicotine productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Distribute advertisements for tobacco, vaping, or nicotine productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Cause publication or printing of prohibited tobacco/vape adsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Allow prohibited advertising for tobacco/vaping products onlineAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Participate in tobacco product sponsorship agreementAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Enter sponsorship agreement promoting vapes or nicotine productsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Vaping in a designated vape-free placeAny Person
Fine up to £200
- Use heated tobacco in a no-use areaAny Person
Fine up to £200
- Fail to display no-smoking signs in ScotlandAny Person
Fine up to £1,000
- Allow vaping in vape-free premises in ScotlandAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Knowingly permit use of heated tobacco device in heated tobacco-free premisesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to take reasonable steps to prevent heated tobacco use in designated premises/vehicleAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to stop vaping in a vape-free place or vehicleAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Fail to display required 'no heated tobacco' signsOccupier
Fine up to £1,000
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must review the Tobacco and Vapes Act within 4-7 years and report to ParliamentCrown / Minister / Government department
114 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
18 of 277 shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authorities must be designated to grant tobacco/vape licencesCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authorities may charge tobacco/vape licence application feesLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulations must include review and appeal rights for licensing decisionsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must give notice of intent before imposing financial penaltyLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local weights and measures authority must issue final notice imposing financial penaltyLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authorities must pay enforcement proceeds into central funds after deducting costsLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Licensing authority may charge licence application fees within specified limitsLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local weights and measures authority must issue notice of intent before imposing financial penaltyLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must issue final notice with required details after representationsLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local weights and measures authority must pay proceeds from final notices into Welsh Consolidated FundLocal authority
- Give tobacco/vapes to under-18s in Wales via mail-orderAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Hand over tobacco or vaping products to under-2009 person in WalesAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Carry on registrable business at premises not on the registerAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Ministers must keep a register of tobacco, vaping and nicotine businessesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Notify the register if you close a tobacco, vaping or nicotine business at any addressAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Registration authority must record proposed registrable business types on granting applicationLocal authority
- Notify regulator when you stop selling vaping/nicotine products at a registered addressAny Person
- Carry on registrable business at unregistered premisesAny Person
259 other schedules
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.