Select Legislative Instrument 2007 No. 20
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.
Dated 15 February 2007
P. M. JEFFERY
Governor‑General
By His Excellency’s Command
CHRIS PEARCE
1 Name of Regulations
These Regulations are the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Amendment Regulations 2007 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.
3 Amendment of Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004
Schedule 1 amends the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(regulation 3)
[1] After regulation 3
insert
3A Purpose
The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for a system of warnings, explanatory messages and graphic images to increase consumer knowledge of health effects relating to smoking, to encourage the cessation of smoking and to discourage uptake or relapse.
[2] Subregulation 6 (2)
substitute
(2) If:
(a) one or more packages are contained inside a larger package; or
(b) 2 or more packages are combined to form a larger package;
and the whole is offered for retail sale as one unit:
(c) the larger package is a retail package; and
(d) each smaller package is a retail package.
Example
Packets of cigarettes in a carton.
[3] After subregulation 16 (2)
insert
(2A) For paragraph (2) (c), in determining whether a label can easily be removed, regard must be had to:
(a) the expected life‑span of the package; and
(b) whether the label can be removed without damaging either the label or the packaging.
[4] After subregulation 30 (2)
insert
(3) For paragraph (2) (c), in determining whether a label can easily be removed, regard must be had to:
(a) the expected life‑span of the package; and
(b) whether the label can be removed without damaging either the label or the packaging.
Note
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