Decision details
Sales of Age Restricted Products
Decision Maker: Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Decision status: Decision Made
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To inform Members to underage sales
enforcement activity. To seek Member approval for a programme of
action for sales of cigarettes, alchol and spray paint for the next
12 months.
Decision:
This report informed Members of the work undertaken by the council’s trading standards service to prevent the sales of age-restricted products.
Member approval was required for the programme of action for the next 12 months in relation to the enforcement of:-
i) The Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 in relation to cigarettes/tobacco.
ii) The Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 in relation to aerosol paint.
Consideration was given to the following options:
Option 1: The council should continue with the programme of education and enforcement action set out in paragraph 4 for the next 12 months.
Option 2: The council should continue with the programme of education and enforcement action set out in paragraph 4 for the next 12 months but rather than considering prosecution for first time offenders officers should adopt a more flexible approach to taking formal enforcement action including the use of fixed penalty tickets when these become available and the use of licensing reviews for repeat offenders in the case of illegal alcohol sales.
Option 3: The council may adopt a different programme of enforcement.
Advice of the Advisory Panel
That the Advisory Panel advise the Executive Member to note the report and adopt Option 2 for the programme of enforcement action for the next 12 months.
Decision of the Executive Member
RESOLVED: That the advise of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON: So that the Council can meet its obligations in relation to the enforcement of The Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991 in relation to cigarettes/tobacco, The Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 in relation to aerosol paint and the Licensing Act 2003 in relation to the underage sales of alcohol.
Publication date: 08/12/2006
Date of decision: 07/12/2006
Decided at meeting: 07/12/2006 - Executive Member For Neighbourhood Services and Advisory Panel
Effective from: 12/12/2006