What is a compliance test?
42B What is a compliance test?
A compliance test—
involves a young person (a purchase assistant), under the supervision of an authorised officer, purchasing, or trying to purchase, smoking products from tobacco licence-holders; and
is carried out to obtain evidence that may lead to the prosecution of a person, or other action being taken against a person, for an offence against section 14 (Supply of smoking product to under 18 year olds) in relation to a smoking product; and
Example of other action disciplinary action under division 7.3 against a tobacco licence-holder
may involve the purchase assistant and the authorised officer engaging in conduct that would, apart from section 42F (Lawfulness of compliance testing), be an offence against a territory law.
In this section:
tobacco licence—see section 43.
tobacco licence-holder means someone who holds a tobacco licence.
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