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Public Health (Wales) Act 2017

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  • specified provision(s) amendment to earlier commencing S.I. 2017/949, art. 3 by S.I. 2017/967 art. 2

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(1)In this Chapter—

  • authorised officer” (“swyddog awdurdodedig”) has the meaning given in section 39;

  • limited liability partnership” (“partneriaeth atebolrwydd cyfyngedig”) means a limited liability partnership formed under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (c.12);

  • premises” (“mangre”) includes any place and any moveable structure, stall, tent or vehicle (other than a train, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft);

  • the register” (“y gofrestr”) means the register maintained under section 30(1);

  • registered” (“cofrestredig” and “wedi ei gofrestru”) has the meaning given in section 30(7);

  • registration authority” (“awdurdod cofrestru”) means the person specified in regulations made under section 30(2);

  • tobacco” (“tybaco”) includes cigarettes, any product containing tobacco and intended for oral or nasal use, and smoking mixtures intended as a substitute for tobacco; and “cigarette” (“sigarét”) includes cut tobacco rolled up in paper, tobacco leaf, or other material in such form as to be capable of immediate use for smoking;

  • tobacco or nicotine business” (“busnes tybaco neu nicotin”) has the meaning given in section 30(3);

  • trading name” (“enw masnachu”) means a name under which a person carries on a tobacco or nicotine business.

(2)“Nicotine product”, for the purposes of this Chapter, means a product or description of product specified in regulations, but the following are not to be treated as being nicotine products—

(a)tobacco;

(b)cigarette papers;

(c)any device which is intended to be used for the consumption of lit tobacco.

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