#2026/210Scotland Starts New Tobacco and Vape Retail Register Rules
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This regulation starts parts of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 in Scotland, mainly extending and updating the retailer registration system for tobacco and vaping products from 29 October 2026. Some related changes are delayed until 29 April 2027. Retailers, enforcement bodies, and anyone subject to a tobacco or vaping product banning order need to follow the updated register and banning order framework. Existing applications and orders are carried over so enforcement does not restart or fall through a gap during the transition.
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Key Changes
- Brings the extended tobacco and vaping product retailer registration rules into force in Scotland on 29 October 2026
- Delays specific parts of the new register changes until 29 April 2027
- Carries over pending applications and existing banning orders into the updated legal framework
Obligations
What this law requires
Retailers of tobacco and vaping products in Scotland must comply with the extended retailer registration framework brought into force by section 69 and schedule 9 of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026.
Persons with an existing tobacco and vaping product banning order made before 29 October 2026 must continue to comply with that order under the updated banning order framework.
Pending applications for a tobacco and vaping product banning order made before 29 October 2026 must be treated as applications for a banning order under section 15 of the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2010.
For existing tobacco and vaping product banning orders, enforcement bodies and register administrators must read references to a “banning order” in specified provisions of the 2010 Act as including a tobacco and vaping product banning order.
Where an ancillary order relates to a tobacco and vaping product banning order, section 16(2) of the 2010 Act must continue to be applied as if the amendments made by paragraph 11 of schedule 9 of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 had not been made.