TPD3010 – Registration: The Law: TPDA and TPR

TPDA

The ‘ Tobacco Products Duty (TPD) Act 1979’ 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.