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TOBACCO ACT 1987 - SECT 15S Offence to breach a ban order

TOBACCO ACT 1987 - SECT 15S

Offence to breach a ban order

    (1)     A person must not sell by retail or wholesale a product in respect of which a ban order under section 15N is in force.

Penalty:     In the case of a natural person, 120 penalty units;

In the case of a body corporate, 600 penalty units.

S. 15S(2) amended by No. 55/2016 s. 9(15)(d)(e).

    (2)     A tobacco company or e-cigarette company is guilty of an offence against this subsection and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5000 penalty units, if the tobacco company or e-cigarette company, as the case may be, intentionally or recklessly—

        (a)     contravenes subsection (1); or

        (b)     causes another person to contravene subsection (1).

    (3)     An offence against subsection (2) is an indictable offence.

Pt 2A (Heading) substituted by No. 55/2016 s. 9(15)(f).

Pt 2A (Heading and ss 15T15ZB) inserted by No. 49/2009 s. 39.

Part 2A—Specialist tobacconists and specialist e-cigarette retailing premises

S. 15SA inserted by No. 66/2013 s. 9,

amended by No. 55/2016 s. 9(15)(g).