EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations bring into force section 20 (smoking outside hospitals) of the Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the Act”).
Regulation 2 and the schedule provide that the day appointed for that section to come into force is—
(a)2 March 2022, so far as is necessary to enable the Scottish Ministers to lay and make regulations under sections 4C(4) and 4D(2), (4) and (5) and paragraph 4(1) of schedule 1 of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005,
(b)5 September 2022 for all other purposes.
The Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 6 April 2016. Sections 34, 35, 36 and 37 of the Act came into force the following day.