TPD3020 - Registration: Limitation of storage of UK product, intended for home-use, to registered stores
Under regulation 9(4)(a) a manufacturer may only remove tobacco product from his registered premises (i.e. factory or store) to a warehouse for purposes other than home use. This means that UK manufactured tobacco product cannot be released to home-use from an excise warehouse.
Under regulation 5(1) you may only register a store in the name of a manufacturer who already occupies a registered factory. (»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp definition of “manufacturerâ€�, inregulation 3(2), includes both the manufacturing and storage divisions of tobacco manufacturing companies.)
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp combined effect of these regulations is that UK manufactured tobacco product, intended for home use, can only be stored in a registered store occupied by a manufacturer.