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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Prohibition of Smoking Outside Hospital Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2022 No. 152
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), this regulation applies to a no-smoking notice which, by virtue of section 4C(1) of the Act (display of warning notices in hospital buildings and on hospital grounds), the Health Board for the area in which a hospital is situated must conspicuously display at every entrance to the hospital grounds.
(2) The notice must—
(a)be a minimum size of 1 metre by 1 metre,
(b)display the international “no smoking” symbol consisting of a graphic description of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across it, at least 200 millimetres in diameter,
(c)in clear font no smaller than 254 millimetres state—
“It is an offence to smoke or knowingly permit smoking in the no-smoking area outside a hospital building.
No-smoking areas extend up to 15 metres around affected buildings and include all areas under canopies or other overhangs on those buildings.”,
(d)in clear font no smaller than 200 millimetres state—
“If you observe someone smoking in the no-smoking area a complaint may be made to a member of hospital staff.”,
(e)be displayed by the Health Board in such a manner that it is protected so far as reasonably practicable from tampering, damage, removal or concealment.
(3) This regulation does not apply to land considered to be “hospital grounds” by virtue of regulation 5.
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