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TOBACCO ACT 1987 - SECT 5E Outdoor drinking areas: no smoking signs

TOBACCO ACT 1987 - SECT 5E

Outdoor drinking areas: no smoking signs

S. 5E(1) amended by Nos 49/2009 s. 12, 55/2016 s. 4(6)(b)(c).

    (1)     The occupier of an outdoor drinking area in which smoking is prohibited by section 5C(1) or (1A) is guilty of an offence, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units, in the case of a natural person, or 50 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate, if, without reasonable excuse, acceptable no smoking signs are not displayed in accordance with subsection (2).

Note

Section 3 defines an acceptable no smoking sign.

S. 5E(2) amended by No. 55/2016 s. 4(6)(d).

    (2)     The signs must be displayed in a manner that ensures that a person is reasonably likely to see one or more of them either on entering the outdoor drinking area or from within the outdoor drinking area.

S. 5EA inserted by No. 55/2016 s. 7.