Explanatory Notes

Public Health (Wales) Act 2017

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3 July 2017

Commentary on Sections

Part 3.Tobacco and Nicotine Products

Chapter 1 - Smoking
Section 14 - Further provision about additional smoke-free premises: dwellings

33.This section limits the Welsh Ministers’ power to designate premises used partly as dwellings as additional smoke-free premises. Dwellings may only be designated as smoke-free by the Welsh Ministers to the extent that they are not enclosed or substantially enclosed and are workplaces or open to the public. They may only be made smoke-free when being used as workplaces or are open to the public; and in those areas which are being used as workplaces or are open to the public.