New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) ACT 2008 - SECT 58

58 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular, for or with respect to any of the following--

(a) the labelling of packages in which tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products are packed by a manufacturer, including the position of labels on such packages and the size, colour, style and nature of such labels or labelling,

(b) statements or warnings for the purpose of the labelling of any such packages,

(c) any statements or warnings to be displayed inside shops and other retail outlets where tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products are offered or exposed for sale,

(d) the labelling of tobacco or e-cigarette vending machines,

(e) the duty of persons packing, or causing other persons to pack, specified tobacco products prepared for smoking, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products to label those products in a specified manner,

(f) prohibiting the sale of packages containing specified tobacco products prepared for smoking, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products unless those packages are labelled in a specified manner,

(g) the form of notices to be used in connection with the entry by inspectors on to any premises, and the manner and occasion of use of such notices,

(h) generally regulating the form and content of tobacco advertisements or e-cigarette advertisements and the matter that may appear on packages containing tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products,

(i) the form and content of signs relating to the provisions of this Act,

(j) the display of the signs at places where tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories or non-tobacco smoking products are sold,

(k) the display of price and other product information in relation to tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-cigarette accessories, non-tobacco smoking products and smoking accessories.

(2) The regulations may provide for what is taken to comprise premises or not comprise premises for the purposes of all provisions, or any specified provision, of this Act or the regulations.

(3) The regulations may create offences punishable by a penalty not exceeding 25 penalty units.

(4) In this section,
"e-cigarette advertisement" has the same meaning as in section 15A.