The Act – Overview Part 1 – Tobacco, Nicotine Vapour Products and Smoking Sale and purchase of tobacco and nicotine vapour products Section 7 – Extension of vending machine prohibition
30.Section 7 of the Act contains an enabling power for the Scottish Ministers to make regulations to amend section 9 (prohibition of vending machines for the sale of tobacco products) of the 2010 Act so that it includes vending machines for the sale of NVPs. The effect of such an amendment would be to make a person who has the management or control of premises on which a vending machine for the sale of NVPs is available commit an offence and be liable to the penalty set out in section 9(2) of the 2010 Act (on summary conviction a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, currently £2,500).