[F14CDisplay of warning notices in hospital buildings and on hospital groundsS
(1)The Health Board for the area in which a hospital is situated must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the hospital grounds.
(2)The person having the management and control of a hospital building must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the building.
(3)A no-smoking notice is a notice stating that it is an offence to smoke in the no-smoking area outside a hospital building or knowingly to permit smoking there.
(4)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision as to the manner of display, form and content of no-smoking notices.
(5)A person who fails to display no-smoking notices in accordance with subsection (2) (and regulations made under subsection (4) insofar as they relate to the duty under subsection (2)) commits an offence.
(6)A person who commits an offence under subsection (5) is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 4A-4D inserted (2.3.2022 for specified purposes, 5.9.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 14), ss. 20(2), 36(2); S.S.I. 2022/43, reg. 2, sch.