London Trading Standards enforces legislation prohibiting the sale of certain age-restricted products and services to underage children.
If you know a business is selling the products below to underage children you can use our online form to report it anonymously .
Age restricted products
Many types of products may only be sold to persons above a prescribed age;
- Alcoholic drinks, 18
- Crossbows, replica and lookalike guns, 18
- Fireworks (Category F2 & F3), 18
- Knives, axes and blades, 18
- Tobacco products and cigarette papers, 18
- Nicotine inhaling products, 18
- Solvents (where abuse suspected), 18
- Sunbed hire and use, 18
- Lottery tickets, 18
- Aerosol spray paints, 16
- Animals, 16
- Liqueur confectionery, 16
- Petrol, 16
- Fireworks (category F1), 16
- Christmas crackers, 12
- DVDs, videos and certain console games, 12,15,18 as marked