2 Prohibition of tobacco advertisingU.K.
(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.
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/41), regs. 1, 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 2 restricted (31.10.2012 for specified purposes, 6.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/246), art. 1(1)reg. 9 (with reg. 1(2))
C2S. 2 restricted (N.I.) (6.4.2015) by The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Specialist Tobacconists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/244), regs. 1(1), 2 (with reg. 4)
Commencement Information
I1S. 2 partly in force; s. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 22(1)(2); s. 2 in force for certain purposes at 14.2.2003 and for certain further purposes at 14.5.2003 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(2)(b)(3)(a) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/258, art. 2(3)-(6)) and S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(2)(b)(3)(a) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2003/80, art. 2(3)-(6))
I2S. 2 in force at 21.12.2004 for specified purposes for S. by S.S.I. 2004/546, art. 2(1)
I3S. 2 in force at 21.12.2004 for specified purposes for E.W.N.I. by S.I. 2004/3138, art. 2(1)
I4S. 2 in force at 31.7.2005 for specified purposes for E.W.N.I. by S.I. 2004/3138, art. 2(2)(a)
I5S. 2 in force at 31.7.2005 for specified purposes for S. by S.S.I. 2004/546, art. 2(2)(a)
I6S. 2 in force at 26.9.2006 for E.W.N.I. so far as not already in force by S.I. 2006/2372, art. 2
I7S. 2 in force at 28.9.2006 for S. so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2006/473, art. 2