100Tear strips on wrappers

100 Tear strips on wrappers

(1) A plastic or other wrapper that covers: (a) the primary packaging of a tobacco product; or (b) the secondary packaging of a tobacco product; or (c) a tobacco product that is for retail sale; may include one tear strip. Tear strips—generally (2) The tear strip must: (a) be either: (i) entirely black; or (ii) entirely transparent and not coloured; and (b) form a single continuous straight line of constant width, not wider than 3 mm, around the circumference of the primary packaging or secondary packaging, or the tobacco product, covered by the wrapper. (3) However, a transparent and not coloured tear strip may include a single solid black line not more than 15 mm long indicating where the tear strip begins. Tear strips—cigarette packs and cigarette cartons (4) A tear strip on a plastic or other wrapper that covers one cigarette pack must be parallel, and as close as possible, to the bottom edge of the flip‑top lid. (5) A tear strip on a plastic or other wrapper that covers a cigarette carton, or more than one cigarette pack, must be parallel to any straight edge of the cigarette carton or the cigarette packs, as the case requires.