Tobacco and Vaporisers Control Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Enforcement and Miscellaneous
37. Regulations
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The Minister may make such regulations as appear to him or her necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to any of the following matters:
the class or classes of licences to be granted under section 18, the form and duration of the licences, the terms and conditions upon which and the circumstances in which the licences may be granted, held, suspended, cancelled, altered, extended, renewed or replaced and the fees payable in respect of the licences;
a register to be kept of the licences granted, the particulars to be entered in the register and for the publication of the names of licensees;
requiring such information or security as the Minister considers necessary in relation to the application for the grant or renewal of a licence;
prescribing the books, records or accounts to be kept by licensees;
the requirements under this Act for tobacco products and their packaging or labelling, including —
the requirements as to size, appearance and design of tobacco products and their packaging or labelling;
the health warnings and other information to be stated on tobacco products and their packaging or labelling; and
the trade marks, terms, descriptors, figurative or other signs, features, scents and sounds that are prohibited in relation to tobacco products and their packaging or labelling;
authorising the importation, sale or possession of tobacco products, imitation tobacco products or vaporisers or their components, that contain a specified psychoactive substance, and prescribing the circumstances and conditions under which the persons authorised may import, sell or possess the tobacco products, imitation tobacco products, vaporisers or their components, as the case may be;
authorising the consumption of specified psychoactive substances and prescribing the circumstances and conditions under which the specified psychoactive substances may be consumed;
prescribing any matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed under or for the purposes of this Act.
For the purposes of subsection (2)(e), different requirements or prohibitions may be prescribed for different tobacco products or different types of packaging or labelling of tobacco products.
packaging
“packaging”, in relation to any product or article, means any container and any other packaging material in which or with which the product or article is supplied, and includes —(a)the box, carton, cylinder, packet, pouch, tin or other receptacle which contains the product or article;(b)where any such receptacle is or is to be contained in one or more other receptacles, each of the other receptacles;(c)wrapper or wrapping of any nature or form;(d)any accompanying leaflet, brochure or other written material; and(e)any written, printed or graphic representation that appears on or with, or is attached to, the product or article or any part of its packaging;
All such regulations must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.