Australian Capital Territory
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.
Note	The 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
22	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
2	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]

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