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| SELB GOES SMOKE-FREE FROM 30 APRIL 2007 |
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| Enclosed and Substantially Enclosed Educational Premises.
From 30 April 2007 legislation, enforced by district councils, will come into effect which will make it against the law to smoke in enclosed public places and workplaces. |
| This includes all indoor areas of buildings open to the public and workplaces such as schools, libraries, youth centres, staff rooms, changing and toilet facilities, which will have to be smoke-free from this date. This will also mean that smoking rooms inside buildings will no longer be permitted. |
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| The law will also require that ‘substantially enclosed’ premises are smoke-free. A substantially enclosed premise is a structure with a roof with more than 50% of the sides enclosed by walls or other structures which serve the purpose of walls. You should bear this rule in mind if you choose to provide an external smoking facility. The Environmental Health Department in your local Council will be able to advise you on whether a structure would be considered substantially enclosed and would therefore have to be smoke-free.
Signage
Buildings open to the public and workplaces will be required to display ‘no-smoking’ signs at the entrances to the premises bearing the international no-smoking symbol, indicating that they are smoke-free and that it is against the law to smoke there. Further information and free signs are available from local Councils and to download from the following link, www.spacetobreathe.org.uk
Vehicles
The new legislation will also require that work vehicles used by more than one person, even if they do so at different times, and vehicles used to transport members of the public are smoke-free. This could include buses and mini-buses used in association with schools and youth schemes, even if people do not pay to travel in them. Mobile libraries will also have to be smoke-free. Smoke-free vehicles will be required to display no smoking signs.
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