Posted By Ron Young If you are speaking of the law coming in in Scotland, yes, the portakabins will be affected, they will be illegal. An enclosed space in the Scottish legislation is, simply put, anything that is more than 50% enclosed. The English law which changes next year is at present unwritten.

Posted By Calum Clark You'll also need to have no smoking signs in the portakabin (registered trademark)which display the name or desgnation of someone to whom complaints can be made about anyone smoking where they shouldn't. Look at http://www.clearingtheairscotland.com which will give you access to the Act, the Regs and associated guidance and sample signage. The spirit of the law is good. The detail, unfortunately, is a nonsense.

Posted By jackw. Hi, I, like others, assume you are relating to the new law in scotland due on 26 march (personnaly great news). You will not be allowed to use porta cabins or another fully enclosed shelters you must remove ashtrays from tis area errect the new no smoking "it's the law" signage and locate a named person or designation to take and act upon complaints. in effect any enclosure must be 50% max enclosed including the roof but not the floor area. Pubs and club are considering a cannopy type area. REMEMBER you do NOT have to provide smoking areas for staff, clients visitors etc. he law is concerned with stopping 2nd had smoke inhaulation.

Posted By lawrence baldwin Section 3 of the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 states: Section 3 Display of warning notices in and on no-smoking premises (1) If notices are not conspicuously displayed- (a) in, on or near no-smoking premises so as to be visible to and legible by persons in and persons approaching the premises; and (b) stating- (i) that the premises are no-smoking premises; and (ii) that it is an offence to smoke there or knowingly to permit smoking there, the person having the management or control of the premises commits an offence. We now in Scotland will need to exhibit a statutory sign at every "enclosed place of work" that, in my humble opinion is, at best unnecessary and stating the obvious and at worst, pre-empting the onset of a lot of junk mail-shots, while current ethos has been moving away from such palliative measures. Lets hope those who can advise the Welsh and English Law makers of a slightly better written and workable statute that represents our current workplace management. Unless of course one has a sideline in sign printing and can influence legislation. As Calum sais earlier, the content is a nonsense.

Posted By lawrence baldwin Hi John must be ok, but only if there's not only isn't a sign saying so but also identifying it as an offence to do so. A tad ill thought out and even harder to administer, (some may say a bit like our wonderful executive itself perhaps) unless of course one has a pinting business. Lawrence

Posted By John Webster The really daft bit about the signage is that it now becomes a legal requirement to display approved style no smoking signs on premises that are already no smoking. Im afraid that all non-smoking premises holders will be considered to be irresponsible law flouters who will suddenly allow people to have a crafty drag on their premises and so must inform the remaining law abiding patrons of how to rat on said premises holder (the enforcers are hardly going to get round in time to catch the smoker at it, are they?). As the proprietor of a non-smoking guest house, where intending guests are fully aware of our policy before booking, I have no intention of cluttering up our tasteful decor with unnecessary and insulting official signs.