Details of retailers who sell cigarettes to minors will be published online
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The Department of Health is to introduce on-the-spot fines for retailers who sell cigarettes to minors, and that information will then be published online.
New measures will also ban the sale of cigarettes from vending machines.
Following a public consultation, the department is preparing the draft heads of a Bill which will impose tougher penalties for those who sell the products illegally.
The proposed legislation will allow for the introduction of minimum suspension periods for retailers convicted of offences.
Name and shame
It will also allow for fixed penalties to be introduced and for those retailers to be “named and shamed”.
The proposals were first proposed by former minister for health James Reilly in 2014 but have been revisited by Minister for Health Simon Harris.
There is also a series of measures aimed at further regulating the sale of e-cigarettes.