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Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002

Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 s 8

s 8 Displays : Scotland

(1) A person who in the course of a business displays or causes to be displayed in Scotland tobacco products or their prices in a place or on a website where tobacco products are offered for sale is guilty of an offence if the display does not comply with such requirements (if any) as may be specified by the appropriate Minister in regulations. (1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) Nothing in subsection (1) makes it an offence for a service provider established outside the United Kingdom to do anything in the course of providing information society services. (3) The regulations may, in particular, provide for the meaning of “ place ” in subsection (1). (4) The regulations must make provision for a display which also amounts to an advertisement to be treated for the purpose of offences under this Act— (a) as an advertisement and not as a display, or (b) as a display and not as an advertisement.

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