The Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991

Northern Ireland Order in Council 1991 No. 2872 — creates 3 criminal offences.

3offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 19 December 1991
In force from: Not determined
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under: Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974, Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order is made only for purposes corresponding to those of the Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 (c. 23). It increases the penaltieVs for the sale of tobacco to persons under the age of 16 years, prohibits the sale of unpackaged cigarettes, requires the publication of warning statements in retail premises and on vending machines and makes provision with respect to enforcement action by district councils relating to offences connected with the sale of tobacco.

Offences created by this instrument

Sale of unpackaged cigarettes article 4(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Display of warning statements in retail premises and on vending machines article 5(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
Display of warning statements in retail premises and on vending machines article 5(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability

How Parliament handled it

Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.

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