Proclamation re commencement (2006-40) (NSW)

2006 No 40

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Smoke-free Environment Act 2000 No 69

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 2 July 2007 as the day on which section 10 of that Act commences.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 8th day of February 2006.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

JOHN HATZISTERGOS, M.L.C.,
Minister for Health

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

The object of this Proclamation is to commence section 10 of the Smoke-free Environment
Act 2000 on 2 July 2007.

Section 10 of the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000 provides that:

(a)	the occupier of a smoke-free area has a duty to take reasonable steps to prevent the smoke from other parts of the premises in which smoking is allowed penetrating the smoke-free area, and
(b)	the occupier of any part of premises in which smoking is allowed must take reasonable steps to prevent the smoke from that part of the premises penetrating a smoke-free area within those premises, and
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(c)	the Minister may issue guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable steps to prevent the penetration of smoke into smoke-free areas and a person who complies with such guidelines is to be considered to have taken all reasonable steps to prevent the penetration of smoke into a smoke-free area.

BY AUTHORITY