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Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill

This is the text of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 14th December 2000.

 
EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department of Health, will be published separately as Bill 6- EN.


EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Milburn has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill are compatible with the Convention rights.


 
  
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
Clause 
1.Meaning of "tobacco advertisement" and "tobacco product".
2.Prohibition of tobacco advertising.
3.Advertising: newspapers, periodicals etc.
4.Advertising: exclusions.
5.Advertising: defences.
6.Specialist tobacconists.
7.Developments in technology.
8.Prohibition of free distributions.
9.Prohibition of sponsorship.
10.Brandsharing.
11.Television and radio broadcasting.
12.Enforcement.
13.Powers of entry, etc.
14.Obstruction, etc. of officers.
15.Penalties.
16.Offences by bodies corporate and Scottish partnerships.
17.Regulations.
18.Transitional provisions: sponsorship.
19.Interpretation.
20.Commencement, short title and extent.
 


 
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