Age restricted goods.


Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
It is an offence to sell these to anybody under 18 years. It's is also an offence to knowingly sell them to a person 18 or over who is
intending to supply them to a person under 18. Cigarettes must be sold in their original packaging and must not be split and sold as a separate item.

Fireworks
Fireworks must be sold in their original packaging, which includes warnings, and should not be split into single items.
Fireworks (including hand held sparklers) cannot be sold to anyone under18. Other explosive devices such as caps, throw-downs, party poppers, table bombs, novelty matches, and serpents cannot be sold to anyone under 16.

Video Recordings (DVDs, Videos, Games)
It is an offence to sell or hire these to a person who has not attained the age specified in the rating certificate which may be 12, 15 or 18.

Intoxicating Substances
Solvents include: lighter fuel/fluid, solvent based glues and adhesives, aerosols, nail varnish remover, anti-freeze and typewriter
correction fluid. It is an offence to supply these to a person under 18 if you know or believe that they are likely to inhale the substance
to achieve intoxication.

Butane Gas/Fluid Cigarette Lighter Refills
It is an offence to supply any cigarette lighter refill canister containing butane or substance with butane as a constituent part to anyone
under 18

National Lottery
It is an offence to sell a lottery ticket or instant win scratch card to a person under 16.

Alcohol
It is an offence to sell alcohol to a person under 18.

Liqueur Chocolates
It is an offence to supply liqueur chocolates to anyone under 16.

Offensive Weapons
It is an offence to sell knives including kitchen knives, utility knives, axes and razor blades to anyone under 16.

Gambling Industry

Slot machines.

There are three types:

Fruit machines;

With a relatively small cash/token payout; these have no legal minimum age restriction, though many operators follow a voluntary code
to partially or totally exclude those under 16 or 18;

All-cash payout fruit machines;

These are age restricted and located in arcades, pubs, betting offices etc;

Jackpot machines;

These have a much bigger payout and are restricted to over 18's by law.

Betting, On or Off Course.

It is illegal to allow anyone under 18 to place a bet or to enter inside a betting shop. If this were to happen, the betting shop owner
and not the under-age gambler would be prosecuted.

Casinos & Bingo.

It is illegal to gamble at a casino or play bingo at a licensed bingo club under the age of 18. In order to do so, you must be a club member.

Did you know?

There are so many things that we take for granted in our daily lives but do you know at what age you are legally entitled to enjoy them?
How old do you need to be to buy alcohol or possess a shotgun certificate?

From birth:
You can have an account in your name with a bank or a building society and have premium bonds in your name.
You can have a passport of your own (if one of your parents signs the application form).

At age 5:
You have to go to school.
You can see a U or (with consent) PG film at the cinema.

At age 7:
You can draw money from a Post Office or savings account.

At age 10:
You can be held fully responsible for a crime.

At age 12:
You can buy a pet animal.
You can see a 12 Certificate film or PG without consent

At age 13:
You can be employed for a certain number of hours a week.

At age 14:
You can go into a bar of licensed premises, but not drink or buy alcohol there.
Be responsible for wearing a seat belt.

At age 15:
Possess a shotgun certificate.
You can see a 15 Certificate film or PG without consent.

At age 16:
You can buy premium bonds.
You can sell scrap metal.
You can join a Trade Union.
You can leave school (until 2013 from which date the leaving age will be raised to 18).
You can choose your own doctor.
You can claim social security benefit.
You can work full time.
You can leave home with your parents' consent.
You can get married with one parents' consent.
You can drink wine or beer with a meal in a restaurant.
You can hold a licence to drive a moped
You can buy a lottery ticket

At age 17:
You can hold a licence to drive any vehicle except certain heavy ones.
You can be sent to prison.
You can engage in street trading.
You can purchase an air rifle.
You can leave home without your parents' consent.

At age 18:
You can appear before adult courts.
You can get married without your parents' consent.
You can vote
You can act as executor of a person's will.
You can make a will.
You can see or buy an 18 Certificate film.
You can bet.
You can change your name.
You can apply for a passport.
You can buy & sell goods
You can own houses and land
You can apply for a mortgage
You can sue and be sued
You can go abroad to sing, play or perform professionally
You can sit on a jury
You can be a blood donor
You can buy alcohol
You can drink alcohol in a pub.
You can work in a bar of licensed premises.
You can buy fireworks.
You can buy knives and edged weapons
You can buy cigarettes or tobacco