Welsh Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1663 (W. 215)

Public Health, Wales

The Proxy Purchasing of Tobacco, Nicotine Products etc. (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Wales) Regulations 2015

Made

4 September 2015

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

10 September 2015

Coming into force

1 October 2015

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the power conferred upon them by paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Health Act 2006(1), make the following Regulations:

(1)

2006 c.28. As to the meaning of “the appropriate national authority” see section 82(1) of the Health Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”). By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) the functions of “the appropriate national authority” in relation to Wales are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers. Schedule 1 to the 2006 Act applies with modifications to an offence under section 91 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) by virtue of section 91(5) of the 2014 Act. Section 91 of the 2014 Act was extended to include relevant nicotine products by regulation 2 of S.I. 2015/895.