Explanatory Notes

Health Act 2009

2009 CHAPTER 21

12 November 2009

Commentary on Sections

Part 3 – Miscellaneous

Tobacco

Section 23:  Power to prohibit sales from vending machines: Northern Ireland

280.Section 23 inserts a new Article 4A into the Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (“the 1991 (NI) Order”).. New Article 4A makes equivalent provision for Northern Ireland to that made for England and Wales by the new section 3A inserted in the 1991 Act by Section 22.