Statutory Instruments
2025 No. 641
BROADCASTING
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
FOOD
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Communications Act 2003 (Restrictions on the Advertising of Less Healthy Food) (Effective Date) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made
at 11.02 a.m. on 3rd June 2025
Laid before Parliament
at 3.45 p.m. on 3rd June 2025
Coming into force
1st July 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 321A(6), 368FA(6) and 368Z14(7) of the Communications Act 2003(1).
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Communications Act 2003 (Restrictions on the Advertising of Less Healthy Food) (Effective Date) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st July 2025.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Amendments to the Communications Act 2003
2.—(1) The Communications Act 2003 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 321A(2) (objectives for advertisements: less healthy food and drink), for “1 October 2025”, substitute “5 January 2026”.
(3) In section 368FA(1) (advertising: less healthy food and drink), for “1 October 2025”, substitute “5 January 2026”.
(4) In section 368Z14 (prohibition of paid-for advertising of less healthy food and drink)—
(a)in subsection (1), for “1 October 2025”, substitute “5 January 2026”;
(b)in subsection (11), for “1 October 2025”, in each place it appears, substitute “5 January 2026”;
(c)in subsection (12)(a), for “1 October 2025”, substitute “5 January 2026”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Care
at 11.02 a.m. on 3rd June 2025
2003 c. 21. Sections 321A, 368FA and 368Z14 were inserted by paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 respectively of Schedule 18 to the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31).