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| Transitional provisions: sponsorship. |
18. - (1) The appropriate Minister may make regulations providing that, subject to the satisfaction (or continuing satisfaction) of any conditions specified in the regulations, section 9 is not to apply before a date so specified to a sponsorship agreement of a description so specified.
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(2) The date specified may not be later than 1st October 2006.
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(3) If, by virtue of regulations under this section, section 9 does not apply to a sponsorship agreement, the doing of anything as a result of that agreement is not an offence under any provision of this Act.
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| Interpretation. |
19. In this Act-
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"appropriate Minister" means- |
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(a) in relation to England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State, and
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(b) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers,
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"public" means the public generally, any section of the public or individually selected members of the public, |
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"purpose" includes one of a number of purposes, and |
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"tobacco advertisement" and "tobacco product" have the meaning given in section 1, |
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and references to publishing include any means of publishing (and include, in particular, publishing by any electronic means, for example by means of the internet). |
| Commencement, short title and extent. |
20. - (1) Apart from this section, this Act comes into force on such day as the appropriate Minister may by order appoint.
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(2) Different days may be appointed under subsection (1) for different provisions and for different purposes.
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(3) Such an order may include such transitional provisions and savings as the appropriate Minister considers appropriate.
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(4) This Act may be cited as the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2001.
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(5) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
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