Protection of Children (Tobacco) Act 1986
| Year | 1986 |
Protection of Children(Tobacco) Act 1986
1986 CHAPTER 34
An Act to amend the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, and the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937, to make it an offence to sell any tobacco product to persons under the age of sixteen; and for connected purposes.
[8th July 1986]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment of section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.
(1) In section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (sale of tobacco &c. to persons under sixteen)—
(a ) the proviso to subsection (1) (person not guilty of the offence of selling tobacco otherwise than in form of cigarettes if he did not know and had no reason to believe that it was intended for use of purchaser) is repealed;
(b ) in subsection (2) (powers of court in respect of tobacco vending machines used by young persons) for the word ‘may’ in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted the word ‘shall’;
(c ) in subsection (5) (definition of ‘tobacco’) after the words ‘includes cigarettes’ there shall be inserted the words ‘, any product containing tobacco and intended for oral or nasal use’.
(2) Paragraph (a ) of subsection (1) above does not affect any offence alleged to have been committed before the date on which this Act comes into force and paragraph (b ) of that subsection does not affect the powers of the court on a complaint made before that date.
2 Amendment of section 18 of the Children and Young Persons \(Scotland) Act 1937.
(1) In section 18 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (sale of tobacco &c. to persons under sixteen)—
(a ) the proviso to subsection (1) (person not guilty of the offence of selling tobacco otherwise than in form of cigarettes if he did not know and had no reason to believe that it was intended for use of purchaser) is repealed;
(b ) in subsection (2) (powers of court in respect of tobacco vending machines used by young persons) for the word ‘may’ in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted the word ‘shall’;
(c ) in subsection (5) (definition of...
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