Smoke-free Environment Amendment (Signage Requirements) Regulation 2015 (NSW)

New South Wales

Smoke-free Environment Amendment

(Signage Requirements) Regulation 2015

under the

Smoke-free Environment Act 2000

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000.

JILLIAN SKINNER, MP

Minister for Health

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe requirements relating to the signs that are required to be general regulation-making power).

displayed in an area designated as not being for the consumption of food.

Smoke-free Environment Amendment (Signage Requirements) Regulation 2015 [NSW]

Smoke-free Environment Amendment (Signage Requirements)

Regulation 2015

under the

Smoke-free Environment Act 2000

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Smoke-free Environment Amendment (Signage Requirements)
Regulation 2015.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Smoke-free Environment Regulation 2007

Clause 3A

Insert after clause 3:

3A Signs displayed in areas designated as not being for the consumption of
food

For the purposes of section 4A (4) of the Act, signs must comply with the following:

(a)

they must be clearly legible,

(b)

they must contain:

(i)	a symbol or picture that indicates that eating is prohibited in the area, with a diameter of at least 90 millimetres, and
(ii)	the words “NO FOOD TO BE CONSUMED IN THIS AREA”, in letters of at least 20 millimetres in height, and

(iii) a reference to the name of the Act,

(c)

they must be displayed in such numbers and with such prominence that they are likely to be seen by a person at the entrance to the area concerned, or within that area.