Western Australian Current Acts

TOBACCO PRODUCTS CONTROL ACT 2006 - SECT 124

124 .         Regulations, general powers to make

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1) or the Interpretation Act 1984 Part VI, regulations may be made for all or any of the following purposes —

            (a)         prescribing matters in relation to the labelling of packages, including —

                  (i)         the position of labels on packages;

                  (ii)         the dimensions and colour of, and material constituting, labels or labelling on packages;

                  (iii)         the statements or warnings that are to be the subject of labels on packages;

                  (iv)         statements or other content that cannot be the subject of labels on packages;

            (b)         prescribing matters in relation to the display of tobacco products at places where tobacco products are sold by way of retail sale including —

                  (i)         the number of packages of a particular product line that can be displayed at one time;

                  (ii)         the dimensions, location and positioning of packages, and the display of warnings that are the subject of labels on packages;

            (ca)         prescribing matters in relation to the storage of tobacco products, packages and smoking implements at places where those items are sold by way of retail sale including the means to avoid or minimise attention being given to those items;

            (c)         prescribing matters relating to the number, location, content, dimensions, colour and positioning of, and materials constituting, signs, labels and tickets that give information about the availability or prices of tobacco products or smoking implements and the manner in which that information or content is set out or displayed;

            (d)         prescribing matters relating to the location, content, dimensions, colour and positioning of, and materials constituting, signs required under section 23 or 25 and the manner in which the content of the sign is set out or displayed;

            (e)         prescribing matters relating to the means by which approved guides are to be provided, or made available, for the purposes of section 26(2) or (3);

            (f)         prescribing the number of vending machines that may be permitted on premises and where vending machines may or cannot be placed;

            (g)         prescribing the labelling of vending machines;

            (h)         prescribing alternative means of effecting the service of documents (other than infringement notices) in addition to the means set out in the Interpretation Act 1984 section 76;

                  (i)         creating offences and providing in respect of any such offence a penalty not exceeding a fine of $2 000.

        (3)         Regulations under this section may adopt or apply, with or without modification, any regulation made under the Trade Practices Act 1974 ³ of the Commonwealth in relation to consumer product information standards for tobacco products that is in force or existing at the time when the regulations under this section take effect or as in force or existing from time to time.

        [Section 124 amended: No. 22 of 2009 s. 12; No. 21 of 2018 s. 19.]