[2012] EWHC 1358 (Admin)

The test purchase of tobacco by a person under the age of 18 constituted a sale for the purposes of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 s.7(1) such that an offence had been committed, even if the test purchaser had been acting as an agent for the local authority and whether or not the property had passed to him.

DC (Hooper LJ, Lloyd Jones J)

09/02/2012