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s 12

Health warnings on packaging

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Part 3Packaging, advertising and sponsorship, displays, points of sale
Division 1Packaging requirements

12 Health warnings on packaging

(1) A person must not sell tobacco products unless they are enclosed in a package that displays a prescribed health warning.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) A person must not sell tobacco products that are enclosed in 2 or more packages unless each package displays a prescribed health warning.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(3) A person must not sell a package containing tobacco products on which:

(a) the words "non-injurious" or "non-hazardous" appear; or

(b) words that convey, or tend to convey, an indication that smoking is not a hazard to health appear,

whether the package otherwise complies with this Act and the Regulations or not.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(4) An offence against this section is an offence of strict liability.

(5)

In this section:

tobacco products do not include e-cigarettes, e‑cigarette accessories or any other device or accessory prescribed by the Regulations for section 4A.

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