What specific offences are created by the legislation?
The legislation creates three specific offences: • Failing to display no-smoking signs in premises covered by the law • Smoking in a smoke-free place • Failing to prevent smoking in a smoke-free place. In addition, it will be an offence to intentionally obstruct an officer authorised by the local authority to enforce the smoke-free legislation or to fail to assist the officer in the exercise of his functions without reasonable cause.
