(1) The Act prohibits smoking in enclosed public places and creates offences that give effect to that prohibition.
(2) The object of the Act is to promote public health by minimising the exposure of people in enclosed public places to environmental smoke.
(3) Under the Act, an enclosed public place is a public place, or part of a public place, that is enclosed as prescribed by regulation (see the Act, dictionary).
(4) The purpose of this part is to set out what makes a place enclosed for that definition.