Tobacco Control (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (WA)

24 January 19921	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	365
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TOBACCO CONTROL ACT 1990

TOBACCO CONTROL (GENERAL) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS

1992

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

(a) by inserting before "In these regulations" the following (1) PP;

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Tobacco Control (General)

Amendment Regulations 1992.

Principal regulations

2.     In these regulations, the Tobacco Control (General) Regulations 1991*

are referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Published in the Gazette of 26 July 1991 at pp. 3852-3. For amendments to 24 December 1991, see Gazettes of 7 August and 13 December 1991.]

Regulation 3 amended

3.      Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended —

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in the definition of "health warning" by deleting "Health

(b)	Authority Warning", wherever it occurs; and
(c)	by inserting after the existing regulation the following

subregulation -

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attribution" or "the attribution" is a reference to the	(2) A reference in these regulations to "an
statement "Health Authority Warning".	".

Regulation 4 amended

4. Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting before

"is not visible" the following -

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is positioned in such a way that its visual or written message ".

Regulation 5 repealed and
regulation 5 substituted

5.      Regulation 5 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following

regulation is substituted - -

Maximum dimensions of tobacco advertisements

5. (1) A shopkeeper shall ensure that the maximum area occupied by tobacco advertisements which form part of an

advertising display which is situated inside his or her shop or

other retail outlet does not exceed 3 000 square centimetres.

Penalty: $1000.

maximum width, as the case requires, of any one tobacco (2) A shopkeeper shall ensure that the width, or the

advertisement which is situated inside his or her shop or other retail outlet is neither less than half, nor more than 3½ times, the height, or the maximum height, as the case requires, of that tobacco advertisement.

Penalty: $1000.

Regulation 7 repealed

6.      Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is repealed.

Regulation 8 amended

7. Regulation 8 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a)	in paragraph (a) by deleting "Capitals" and substituting the	following -
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capitals and

(b) in paragraph (c) by inserting before "occupy not less than" the following -

together with an attribution,

Regulation 9 amended

8. Regulation 9 of the principal regulations is amended -

(a) in subregulation (1) uy incting after "health warning" the	following -
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,together with an attribution,	"; and
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(b) in subregulation (2) —

(i)      by inserting after "health warning", where it first occurs, the following —

, together with an attribution, "; and

(ii)     by deleting "the health warning is" and substituting the following

• both the health warning and the attribution

are ft

Regulation 10 inserted

9. The principal regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 9

the following regulation —

Position and lettering of attributions

10. A shopkeeper who is required to comply with regulation 8

or 9 shall ensure that —

(a)

an attribution is positioned directly below each health warning referred to in that regulation; and

(b)

the letters of the attribution referred to in paragraph (a) —

(i)	appear in Helvetica Medium capitals and Helvetica Medium lower case type; and
(ii)	do not exceed half the height of the letters used for the health warning referred to in that paragraph.

Penalty: 

$1 000.

By His Excellency's Command,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council.