Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

TOBACCO CONTROL ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           part 1 - preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Object
   4.      Act binds Crown
   5.      Definitions
   5A.     Food service area
   6.      Tobacco products

           part 2 - smoke-free areas

   7.      Smoke-free area
   8.      Signs to be displayed
   9.      Smoker commits offence
   10.     Occupier commits offence
   11.     Exempt areas

           part 3 - packaging, advertising and sponsorship, displays, points of sale

           Division 1 - Packaging requirements

   12.     Health warnings on packaging
   13.     Size of cigarette packets for sale
   14.     Weight of loose tobacco for sale

           Division 2 - Advertising and sponsorship restrictions

   15.     Tobacco advertising in public places prohibited
   16.     Brand marketing and value-added marketing prohibited
   17.     Price discounting not to be advertised
   18.     Restrictions on price boards and shelf ticketing
   19.     Sponsorship of events restricted

           Division 3 - Display restrictions

   20.     Occupier commits offence
   21.     Conditions of displays other than on vending machines
   22.     Conditions of vending machine displays
   23.     Signs to be displayed on vending machines

           Division 4 - Restrictions on points of sale

   24.     Occupier commits offence
   25.     Number of points of sale
   26.     Vending machines restricted to certain areas of liquor licensed premises
   27.     Signs to be displayed at points of sale other than vending machines

           part 4 - licensing of tobacco retailers

   28.     Offence to sell by retail without licence
   29.     Grant or refusal of licence
   30.     No conditions about level of sales
   31.     Effect of licence
   32.     Duration of licence
   33.     Licence to be displayed
   34.     Surrender of licence
   35.     Variation of conditions
   36.     Transfer of licence
   37.     Director to be notified of change in circumstances
   38.     Cancellation or suspension
   39.     Notice to show cause
   40.     Notice of and reasons for decision
   41.     Review of Director's decisions

           part 5 - sale or supply to children

   42.     Sale to children prohibited
   43.     Supply to, or purchase for, children prohibited
   44.     Defence
   45.     False identification
   46.     Sale of children's products resembling tobacco products

           part 6 - administration and enforcement

   47.     Authorised officers
   48.     Identity cards
   49.     Functions
   50.     Entry and search powers
   51.     Power to require identification
   52.     Obstruction etc. of authorised officers
   53.     Wholesalers to provide information about retailers
   54.     False or misleading statements
   55.     Delegation by Chief Health Officer or Director
   56.     Legal immunity
   57.     Confidentiality

           part 7 - miscellaneous

   58.     Regulations

           part 8 - repeal and transitional

   59.     Repeal
   60.     Transitional: section 28