The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional (Amendment) Regulations 2003

These Regulations have been made to correct an omission in S.I. 2003/77 and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Regulations

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 1415

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

23rd May 2003

Laid before Parliament

6th June 2003

Coming into force

27th June 2003

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(2) and 20(1) of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 27th June 2003.

(2) These Regulations extend to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Amendment of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional Regulations 2003

2.  In regulation 3(2)(b)(ii) of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional Regulations 2003(2) after the word “visible” there shall be inserted the word “tobacco”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hazel Blears

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

23rd May 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Sponsorship) Transitional Regulations 2003 in order to clarify the conditions under which there is a time limited exception for the sponsorship of exceptional global events. “Exceptional global event” is defined in regulation 2 of those Regulations. The clarification makes it clear that the reference to “advertisements” in the conditions which apply to the exception is a reference to tobacco advertisements.

A separate Regulatory Impact Assessment for these Regulations has not been prepared.

(1)

2002 c. 36. The powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 21, in relation to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as the Secretary of State.

(2)

S.I. 2003/77.