Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sale of Tobacco (Display of Warning Statements) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 1st April 2011.
Display of warning statements - dimensions of notice and size of statement
2.—(1) The following are prescribed for the purposes of section 8(5) of the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010.
(2) The dimensions of the notice are not less than 297 millimetres by 420 millimetres.
(3) The statement to be displayed on the notice is of a size such that no character is less than 36 millimetres high.
Amendment of the Protection from Tobacco (Display of Warning Statements) Regulations 1992
3. In the Protection from Tobacco (Display of Warning Statements) Regulations 1992(1) omit regulation 2.
Amendment of the Sale of Tobacco (Register of Tobacco Retailers) Regulations 2010
4. In regulation 3(d) of the Sale of Tobacco (Register of Tobacco Retailers) Regulations 2010(2) omit “or a trade tobacconist”.
S. ROBISON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
21st February 2011