The Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st October 2008.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Tobacco Products (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale) (Safety) Regulations 2002(1).

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 7 (warnings on tobacco products) of the principal Regulations—

(a) for sub-paragraph (1)(b) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b) on the other most visible surface an additional health warning in the form of a picture warning from the list of picture warnings set out in Part 1 or, where it applies, Part 2 of the Schedule, printed in accordance with the technical specifications set out in Part 3 of the Schedule.”; and

(b) for paragraph (2) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) A producer of a tobacco product intended only for supply in the travel retail sector may use the picture warning set out in Part 2 of the Schedule in place of the picture warning set out in paragraph 14 of Part 1 of the Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 9(1) (appearance of warnings and yield statements) of the principal Regulations immediately after “regulation 7” there is inserted “(other than paragraph (1)(b))”.

Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations

4.  In regulation 11(2) (product descriptions) of the principal Regulations at the end there is added—

• “, any other member State, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.”.

Amendment of regulation 14 of the principal Regulations

5.  In regulation 14 (prohibitions on the supply of non-compliant tobacco products) of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (2) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(2) Except in relation to products intended for the travel retail sector, paragraph (1) does not apply where a tobacco product is or is to be supplied for consumption outside the United Kingdom, any other member State, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.”.

Substitution of the Schedule to the principal Regulations

6.  For the Schedule to the principal Regulations there is substituted the Schedule in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Transitional provisions

7.  The changes made to the principal Regulations by these Regulations shall not apply to the supply of a tobacco product produced before 1st October 2008 where the supply takes, or is to take, place—

(a) in the case of cigarettes, before 1st October 2009;

(b) in the case of other tobacco products, before 1st October 2010.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Dawn Primarolo

Minister of State,

Department of Health

23rd August 2007