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TOBACCO AND OTHER SMOKING PRODUCTS ACT 1998 - SECT 26D

26D Manner of display of immediate package of smoking product

(1) A display of a product line of an immediate package of a smoking product may consist of the display of the product line in 1 only of the following ways--

(a) by the display of a single immediate package of the product line in the form in which the package is available, or usually available, for sale;
(b) by a stack dispenser for immediate packages of the product line that complies with this section;
(c) by a single representation of the immediate package of the product line in the form in which the package is available, or usually available, for sale that--
(i) is no larger than the actual size of the package, with the same appearance as the package; and
(ii) includes a representation of the warning message and corresponding graphic with which the package is required to be labelled under the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004 (Cwlth).

(2) The display of a product line of a smoking product by a stack dispenser for immediate packages of the product line is permitted in 1 only of the following ways--

(a) by stacking immediate packages directly behind each other, whether horizontally, or on an angle to the horizontal, in a way that the most that is displayed is--
(i) a face and the top, sides and bottom of a single immediate package at the front of the stack (from the point of view of the customer); and
(ii) the tops, sides and bottoms of the other immediate packages in the stack;
(b) by stacking immediate packages on top of each other so that only 1 package in the stack, and no part of any other package in the stack, is displayed.

(3) Immediate packages in a stack dispenser may not be arranged as a display panel.

(4) Immediate packages in a stack dispenser are taken to be arranged as a display panel if--

(a) the packages are arranged in a way that highlights the immediate packages to a person facing the stack dispenser, including by leaving spaces between the packages; and
(b) the packages in the stack dispenser visible to a person facing the dispenser are considerably less in number than the packages that could be fitted into the same area of a stack dispenser that is designed to maximise the number of packages in the area visible to a person facing the dispenser.

(5) In this section--

stack dispenser means the following, from which smoking products may be taken by a supplier, or an employee of a supplier, for sale to a person--

(a) a device containing smoking products;
(b) a stack or other arrangement of smoking products not contained in a device.


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