The Tobacco Products Regulations 2001

Registered premises—conditions and requirements

7.—(1) When applying for premises to be registered under regulation 4 above (registration of factories) or under regulation 5 above (registration of stores) the occupier must give the Commissioners notice of the times when those premises will be open.

(2) The occupier of any registered premises must give the Commissioners seven days notice of any alterations to the times when those premises will be open.

(3) Before the occupier of any registered premises reduces or extends those premises or alters the security arrangements for the safe storage of tobacco products he must give the Commissioners not less than thirty days notice in writing of his intentions.

(4) The Commissioners may, in such circumstances as they see fit, permit the occupier to give shorter notice than that required by paragraph (2) or by paragraph (3) above.

(5) The Commissioners may, in a notice published by them and not withdrawn by a further notice, impose on the occupiers of registered premises such requirements as to—

(a) the manner in which the activities of deposit, storage and removal of tobacco products are carried out both on and immediately adjacent to those premises, and

(b) the treatment of tobacco products in registered premises,

as may be reasonably necessary to protect the revenue.

(6) Occupiers of registered premises must comply with—

(a) all the conditions and requirements imposed on them by or under these Regulations, and

(b) any conditions subject to which the premises they occupy were registered.