Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002

Short title and commencement.

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1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days as the Minister may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or provisions and for the repeal of different enactments effected by subsection (1) of section 8 and the revocation of different (or different provisions of) regulations effected by subsection (3) of that section.

Annotations

Editorial Notes:

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Power pursuant to section exercised (1.07.2009) by Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2009 (S.I. No. 242 of 2009).

2. The 1st day of July 2009 is appointed as the day upon which section 33A (inserted by section 5 of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 6 of 2004)) of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (No. 6 of 2002) shall come into operation.

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Power pursuant to section exercised (1.07.2009) by Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2008 (S.I. No. 404 of 2008).

3. The 1st day of July 2009 is appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (No. 6 of 2002) come into operation—

(a) section 33 (inserted by section 5 of the Act of 2004),

(b) section 35 (inserted by section 6 of the Act of 2004),

(c) section 36 (inserted by section 7 of the Act of 2004),

(d) section 37 (inserted by section 8 of the Act of 2004),

(e) subsections (2), (4), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) of section 38 (inserted by section 9 of the Act of 2004),

(f) section 39 (as amended by section 10 of the Act of 2004),

(g) section 42 (inserted by section 13 of the Act of 2004),

(h) section 43 (inserted by section 14 of the Act of 2004), and

(i) section 44.

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Power pursuant to section exercised (2.04.2007, 31.05.2007) by Public Health (tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 149 of 2007).

3. (1) Section 45 of the Act of 2002 shall come into operation on the date of the making of this Order.

(2) The 31st day of May 2007 is appointed as the day on which subsections (1) and (3) of section 38 (inserted by section 9 of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2004 (No. 6 of 2004)) of the Act of 2002 shall come into operation.

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Power pursuant to section exercised (29.03.2004) by Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2004 (S.I. No. 110 of 2004).

3. The 29th day of March 2004 is hereby appointed as the day on which the following provisions of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (No. 6 of 2002) shall come into operation:

(a) section 5 (amended by section 3 of the Act of 2004) insofar as it is not already in operation,

(b) section 46 (inserted by section 15 of the Act of 2004),

(c) section 48 (amended by section 17 of the Act of 2004),

(d) section 49,

(e) section 50 (inserted by section 18 of the Act of 2004),

(f) section 51,

(g) section 52, and

(h) section 53.

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Power pursuant to section exercised (15.10.2003) by Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 480 of 2003).

2. The 15th day of October 2003 is hereby appointed as the day on which sections 2, 3, 4, 5(1), 5(2) (in so far as it applies to section 47), 5(5), 5(6), 6, 7 and 47 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (No. 6 of 2002) shall come into operation.

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Power pursuant to section exercised (31.05.2002) by Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (Commencement) Order 2002 (S.I. No. 251 of 2002).

2. The 31st day of May 2002 is hereby appointed as the day on which Part 2 of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 shall come into operation.