3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), section 15(1) of the Act read with regulation 2 of the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) (Prohibited Tobacco Products) Regulations 2014 (G.N. No. S 769/2014) does not apply to prohibit any person who is specified in the First Schedule (called an exempt importer) from doing any of the following during the exemption period referred to in paragraph (3):
(a)
importing any shisha tobacco;
(b)
distributing by wholesale any shisha tobacco at any licensed premises;
(c)
selling or offering for sale by wholesale any shisha tobacco at any licensed premises;
(d)
permitting to be sold or to be offered for sale by wholesale any shisha tobacco at any licensed premises;
(e)
having in the exempt importer’s possession, for sale by wholesale, any shisha tobacco at any licensed premises.
(2) The exempt importer must, immediately before 28 November 2014, be the holder of a valid import and wholesale licence.
(3) The exemption period for an exempt importer is the period starting on 28 November 2014 and ending on —
(a)
31 July 2016 (that date inclusive); or
(b)
the date on which the exempt importer’s import and wholesale licence expires (and is not renewed) or is revoked, if earlier.