Smoke Free Scotland
At 6.00am on 26 March 2006 the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Premises (Scotland) Regulations 2006 came into affect.
Your Business or Organisation will need to take steps to ensure that employees, customers, members and visitors comply with the new law.
Failure to comply with the law will be a criminal offence. Individuals may be fined a fixed penalty of £50 for smoking in a no smoking premises. The manager or person in control of any no smoking premises could be fined a fixed penalty of £200 for either:
- allowing others to smoke in no smoking premises
- failing to display warning notices in no smoking premises
Refusal to pay or failure to pay may result in prosecution and a fine of up to £2500.
Further information can be found on the Scottish Government's website. A link to this site is provided in external links. If there is anything else you need to know you may e-mail the Scottish Government at
info@clearingtheairscotland.com.
Businesses:Guidance on complying with the new legislation is available for downloading on the Scottish Executive website 'clearing the air scotland', a link is provided on the right.
Complaints:To make and register a complaint you may contact us using either of the options on the right.
Advice on quiting Smoking:Smokeline Scotland 0800 848484 or request information from
info@netscotland.co.ukThe NHS Smoking Helpline 0800 1690169.
There are several websites that offer help on quitting smoking and provide information on the health risks associated with smoking. Links to some of these can be found in the external links list in the right column of this page.
