Part 1Tobacco products etc.
C1Chapter 2Register of tobacco retailers
Changes to register
I1C114C1Changes to and removal from Register
1
The Scottish Ministers may correct the Register (following notification under section 13 or otherwise) as they consider appropriate.
2
Where a tobacco retailing banning order is made against a registered person, the Scottish Ministers must amend the person's entry in the Register so as to remove references to the premises specified in the order.
3
The Scottish Ministers may remove a person's entry from the Register if—
a
as a result of a correction or amendment under subsection (1) or (2), there are no premises noted in the person's entry in the Register, or
b
they are not satisfied that the person is carrying on a tobacco business.
4
Where the Scottish Ministers correct, amend or remove a person's entry in the Register under this section, they must—
a
as soon as reasonably practicable notify the person of the correction, amendment or, as the case may be, removal, and
a
if it is appropriate to do so, issue at the same time to the person a revised certificate of registration.
5
The Scottish Ministers must reinstate a person's entry in the register if—
a
the entry was removed under subsection (3)(b), and
b
the person notifies them no later than 28 days after notice of the removal is given under subsection (4)(a) that the person is still carrying on a tobacco business.
6
A notice under subsection (4)(a) may be given—
a
by delivering it to the person,
b
by leaving it at the person's usual or last known address,
c
by sending it by post to the person at that address.
Pt. 1 Ch. 2 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2011) by The Sale of Tobacco (Registration of Moveable Structures and Fixed Penalty Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/23), regs. 1(1), regs. 2-4