The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) Order 2003

article 5

SCHEDULE U.K. Descriptions of Cigars

F1 1.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. para. 1 omitted (1.1.2011) by virtue of The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2852), arts. 1, 2(4)(a)

2.  Cigars with an outer wrapper of natural tobacco. Cigars falling within this description include cigars containing a mixture of tobacco and other substances; provided that they have an outer wrapper of natural tobacco. A cigar containing only substances other than tobacco does not fall within this description. U.K.

F2 3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. para. 3 omitted (1.1.2011) by virtue of The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2852), arts. 1, 2(4)(b)

4.  Cigars with a threshed blend filler and with an outer wrapper that has the normal colour of a cigar. The outer wrapper must be made of reconstituted tobacco and must cover the cigar in full, including where appropriate the filter, but not (in the case of cigars with a mouthpiece) the mouthpiece. If the filler is held together with a binder, the binder may be made of a material other than tobacco or reconstituted tobacco. [F3 Each cigar must have a unit weight (excluding the weight of any filter or mouthpiece) of not less than 2.3 grams and not more than 10 grams.] The circumference over at least one third of the length of the cigar must not be less than 34 mm. A cigar containing only substances other than tobacco does not fall within this description. U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Words in Sch. para. 4 substituted (1.1.2011) by The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2852), arts. 1, 2(4)(c)

5.  A product that is described as a cigarillo but falls within one of the above descriptions is a cigar. U.K.