Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 3)

Part 1 Tobacco products etc.

Chapter 4 Miscellaneous and supplementary

35 Interpretation of Part 1

(1) In this Part—

• “area”—

  (a)

  in relation to a council, means the local government area for which the council is constituted,

  (b)

  in relation to a council officer, means the area of the council which authorised the officer,

• “council” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39),

• “council officer” means a duly authorised officer of a council,

• “fixed penalty notice” is to be construed in accordance with section 27 and schedule 1,

• “premises” includes any place and any vehicle, vessel, or moveable structure,

• “prescribed” means prescribed in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers (and “prescribe” is to be construed accordingly),

• “registered” and “unregistered” have the meaning given in section 10(2),

• “tobacco business” means a business involving the sale of tobacco products by retail,

• “tobacco product” means a product consisting wholly or partly of tobacco and intended to be smoked, sniffed, sucked or chewed,

• “tobacco retailing banning order” has the meaning given in section 15(6).

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the following are smoking related products—

• cigarette papers

• cigarette tubes

• cigarette filters

• apparatus for making cigarettes

• cigarette holders

• pipes for smoking tobacco products.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may by order modify the list in subsection (2) as they consider appropriate.