Tobacco Amendment Act 2001 (ACT)

Tobacco Amendment Act 2001

No 68 of 2001

An Act to amend the Tobacco Act 1927

[Notified in ACT Gazette No. S66: 10 September 2001]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

1. Name of Act

   This Act is the Tobacco Amendment Act 2001.

2. Commencement

   This Act commences 7 days after it is notified in the Gazette.

   NoteThe naming and commencement provisions automatically commence on the notification day (see Legislation Act 2001, s 75).

3. Act amended

   This Act amends the Tobacco Act 1927.

4. Definitions for Act
   Section 2, definition of point of sale

   substitute

   point of sale means a place, identified in accordance with the regulations (if any), where smoking products are sold within a retail outlet or wholesale outlet, and includes a vending machine from which smoking products are sold.

5. Section 22

   substitute

6. Health warnings at point of sale displays

   An occupier of a retail outlet or a wholesale outlet must display a health warning notice prescribed under the regulations at or adjacent to each point of sale display (other than a vending machine) at the outlet.

   Maximum penalty:  50 penalty units.

Endnotes

Act amended

1. Republished as in force on 20 November 2000 (Republication No 4).

Penalty units

1. The Interpretation Act 1967, s 33AA deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 3 May 2001]

© Australian Capital Territory 2001