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Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 37 Cited in Amendments 94 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation2002 c. 36
Year2002
  • In this Act—
    • (1) A person who in the course of a business publishes a tobacco advertisement, or causes one to be published, in the United Kingdom is guilty of an offence.(2) A person who in the course of a business prints, devises or distributes in the United Kingdom a tobacco advertisement which is published in the United Kingdom, or causes such a tobacco advertisement to be so printed, devised or distributed, is guilty of an offence.(3) Distributing a tobacco advertisement includes transmitting it in electronic form, participating in doing so, and providing the means of transmission.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(a) any proprietor or editor of the publication is guilty of an offence,(b) any person who (directly or indirectly) procured the inclusion of the advertisement in the publication is guilty of an offence, and(c) any person who sells the publication, or offers it for sale, or otherwise makes it available to the public, is guilty of an offence.in the United Kingdom, .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .any proprietor of the information society service or any editor of the information contained in the information society service is guilty of an offence, andany person who (directly or indirectly) procured the inclusion of the tobacco advertisement in the information contained in the information society service is guilty of an offence.are engaged in, or employed by, a business which is also part of that trade, andfall within subsection (2) ,if it is, or is contained in, the communication made in reply to a particular request by an individual for information about a tobacco product, or which is printed F52outside the United Kingdom, and who have not made such a request, orwho have not initiated a process by which a tobacco product may be purchased by means of that service; or

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