Guest House in South Shields - South Shore Guest House - Smoking Policy
The new rules on smoking and how they apply to South Shore Guest House ...
The Government says:
Only a few premises will be exempt from the new smokefree law, and all exemptions are subject to strict conditions. Exemptions are provided to allow managers to designate specific rooms for smoking in the following types of premises: Hotels, Inns, Hostels, Guesthouses and Members’ Clubs that provide sleeping accommodation may designate individual guest bedrooms for smoking, but all other parts of the premises must be smokefree.
What conditions must be met for Designated Smoking Rooms?
To allow smoking in one of the designated rooms or bedrooms, it will be the legal responsibility of anyone who controls or manages the premises to ensure that the following conditions are met. Any room where smoking is permitted must:
- be designated in writing by the person in charge of the premises. This written designation needs to be kept permanently and produced for inspection by an enforcement officer if requested.
- have a ceiling and, except for doors or windows, be completely enclosed on all sides by solid floor-to-ceiling walls.
- not have ventilation systems that ventilate into any other part of the premises (except other rooms designated for smoking) or into any other smokefree premises.
- have mechanically closing doors, which should also be compatible with other laws, including fire regulations.
- be clearly marked as a room in which smoking is permitted. You are free to create your own signs warning people about where they could be exposed to secondhand smoke.
- If you are in any doubt whether the rooms you propose to designate will meet with the conditions outlined above, then you are advised to discuss your proposals in advance with your local council.
- In those instances where a ‘room to be used only for smoking’ may be designated, this means that the room is not allowed to be used for any other purpose, for example, as a television room or library.
