TPD3010 - Registration: The Law: TPDA and TPR
TPDA
The ‘� section 7 empowers the Commissioners to make regulations governing the registration of premises where tobacco products are manufactured or stored.
TPR
The ‘Tobacco Products Regulations 2001� Part II is concerned with the registration of premises.
- Regulation 4 stipulates that the manufacture of tobacco products, except for research or experiment, may only take place in a registered factory. Regulation 4 also empowers the Commissioners to register suitable premises as a factory.
- Regulation 5 empowers the Commissioners to register suitable premises as a store. (There is no distinction between ‘adjacent� and ‘remote� stores.)
- Regulation 5 also restricts the registration of stores to manufacturers who already have a registered factory.
- Regulation 3(2) extends the definition of manufacturer to take account of the actual company structures of the UK manufacturers.