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Accountants and business advisors
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No Smoking! Are you ready?
The law is intended to protect employees and individuals from the harmful effects of breathing second-hand smoke. The law is expected to be rigorously enforced. Organisations and individuals who do not comply will be subject to fixed penalty fines:
• Smoking in smokefree premises or work vehicles: a fixed penalty notice of £50 (reduced to £30 if paid in 15 days) imposed on the person smoking. Or a maximum fine of £200 if prosecuted and convicted by a court.
• Failure to display no-smoking signs: a fixed penalty notice of £200 (reduced to £150 if paid in 15 days) imposed on whoever manages or occupies the smokefree premises or vehicle. Or a maximum fine of £1000 if prosecuted and convicted by a court.
• Failing to prevent smoking in a smokefree
place: a maximum fine of £2500 imposed on whoever manages or controls the smokefree premises or vehicle if prosecuted and convicted by a court. There is no fixed penalty notice for this offence.
For more information visit: www.smokefreeengland.co.uk where there are detailed checklists available of the steps businesses and individuals should take.
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