PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) REGULATION 1999 - REG 12 Health warning at point of sale

This legislation has been repealed.

PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) REGULATION 1999 - REG 12

12 Health warning at point of sale

(1) In any shop or any retail premises from which tobacco products are sold, the health warning illustrated in Form 1 in Schedule 1 must be conspicuously displayed at each place where such products are exposed for sale.

(2) If in the shop or premises there is any sales unit adjoining or adjacent to an area to which the public has access and having transparent surfaces through which tobacco products may be seen by the public, a health warning in the form set out as Form 2 or Form 3 in Schedule 1 must be prominently displayed on a transparent surface that faces toward the area.

(3) If two or more health warnings are required by subclause (2) in a particular situation, health warnings in the forms set out as Form 2 and Form 3 in Schedule 1 are to be displayed in equal or approximately equal numbers.

(4) Any health warning required by this clause must:

(a) be between 50 and 100 centimetres wide and have an area not less than 2,000 sq cm, and

(b) have a white background, and

(c) contain text in black characters printed in the same case (upper or lower), and maintain approximately the same proportions of character size and empty space, as the relevant form in Schedule 1.

(5) The occupier of the shop or premises is guilty of an offence if this clause is contravened.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.