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Children and Families Act 2014

Section 95: Smoking in a private vehicle

404.This section amends smoke-free legislation (the Health Act 2006) to provide the Secretary of State, or Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, with the power to make regulations to provide for a private vehicle to be smoke-free when a person under the age of 18 is present in the vehicle. The Health Act 2006 contains two offences in relation to vehicles that are designated as smoke-free under the regulations: smoking in a smoke-free vehicle and failure by the person in control of the vehicle to prevent smoking in a smoke-free vehicle.

405.The Health Act 2006 includes a power to provide for penalty notices in relation to the offence of smoking in a smoke-free vehicle and this section amends that Act to allow penalty notices to also be used for the offence of failing to prevent smoking in a vehicle when a person under the age of 18 is present.

406.All regulations made under these powers will be subject to the affirmative parliamentary procedure.

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