1/ Following the 2020 election, Labour looked at new policies to bring into the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act (SERPA) to fix what they saw as some outstanding issues with the act. One of these issues was disposable vapes.
They received advice that they couldnβt just ban disposable vapes out right.
So, they looked at ways to ban it by the back door.
One of these ways was to require single use vaping products to have a removable battery.
They included this proposal in a policy consultation paper that went out to the public, which the public then had the ability to submit on.
However, when the regulations were drafted and came into law, it was clear that they had made a mistake and the removable battery requirement was to apply to ALL vaping products, not just single use ones.
So, while trying to ban disposables via a dopey back door, they accidentally went and banned all vaping products by requiring them all to have a removable battery.