The Act – Overview Part 1 – Tobacco, Nicotine Vapour Products and Smoking Chapter 3 – Smoking Outside Hospitals Section 20(2)
61.Section 20(2) inserts new sections 4A, 4B, 4C and 4D into the 2010 Act. The new sections contain powers for the Scottish Ministers to designate no-smoking areas around certain buildings on certain NHS hospital grounds and provide for related duties, offences and penalties. Each new section is considered in turn below.