71Transparent wrappers

71 Transparent wrappers

Wrappers covering retail packaging (1) Subsection (2) applies to retail packaging that is a plastic or other wrapper that covers any retail packaging of a tobacco product. (2) The requirements in this Part relating to the display of health warnings do not apply to the wrapper if the following conditions are met: (a) the wrapper is totally transparent and not coloured; (b) the tobacco products in the retail packaging covered by the wrapper are all of the same kind; (c) the tobacco products in the retail packaging covered by the wrapper are arranged so that: (i) only the front outer surface of the retail packaging of the tobacco product is visible at one side of the wrapper, and only the back outer surface of the retail packaging of the tobacco product is visible at the opposite side; or (ii) only the front outer surface of the retail packaging of the tobacco product is visible at one end of the wrapper, and only the back outer surface of the retail packaging of the tobacco product is visible at the opposite end.

Note: Paragraph (c) permits tobacco products in retail packaging to be arranged in ‘ranks’ or ‘files’.

Single cigars—retail packaging and wrappers (3) A single cigar supplied by way of retail sale must be covered by at least one layer of retail packaging that is not a plastic or other wrapper.

Note 1: An example of such packaging is a cigar tube or a cigar bag.

Note 2: The band permitted around the circumference of a cigar under section 115 is not retail packaging.

(4) The requirements in this Part relating to the display of health warnings do not apply to retail packaging that is a plastic or other wrapper that directly covers a single cigar if the wrapper is totally transparent and not coloured. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), a wrapper is taken to be totally transparent and not coloured even if it contains a tear strip that complies with section 100.