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PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO AND OTHER PRODUCTS) ACT 2023 - SECT 82

Plain packaging--inserts and onserts

  (1)   The retail packaging of tobacco products (within the meaning of any of paragraphs   (a) to (d) of the definition of retail packaging in section   71):

  (a)   must include the health promotion inserts, and any other inserts or onserts, prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; and

  (b)   must not include any other inserts or onserts.

  (2)   Despite subsection   (1), the retail packaging of tobacco products mentioned in that subsection may include any inserts or onserts permitted by regulations (if any) made for the purposes of this subsection.

Chief Medical Officer to recommend health promotion inserts

  (3)   Before regulations are made under paragraph   (1)(a) prescribing health promotion inserts, the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer must have recommended that the health promotion inserts be prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph.

Commencement of regulations prescribing new health promotion inserts

  (4)   If:

  (a)   regulations are made under paragraph   (1)(a) prescribing health promotion inserts; and

  (b)   those regulations are not the first such regulations made under that paragraph;

the regulations must commence no earlier than 6 months after the day the regulations are made.



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