
1 
This Order may be cited as the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 (Variation of Age Limit for Sale of Tobacco etc. and Consequential Modifications) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st October 2007.
2 
Section 18 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937 (offence of selling tobacco etc. to under age persons and other preventative measures) is modified by substituting “eighteen” for “sixteen” where it occurs in its subsections (1) and (2).
3 
Section 4 of the Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 (display of warning statements in retail premises and on vending machines) is modified by substituting for the number “16” where it occurs in its subsections (1) and (2) the number “18”.
SHONA ROBISON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th September 2007