14Packing certain tobacco products without health warning prohibited—the Act, s 58(1)(a) and (h)

14 Packing certain tobacco products without health warning prohibited—the Act, s 58(1)(a) and (h)

14 Packing certain tobacco products without health warning prohibited—the Act, s 58(1)(a) and (h)

(1) A person must not pack a tobacco product in a package that contains a tobacco advertisement on the package’s external or internal surfaces unless the advertisement also displays a health warning that—

(a) occupies at least one quarter of the area used for the text and space of the advertisement, and

(b) has a white background, and

(c) contains text in black characters in the form set out in Schedule 1, Form 1 in approximately the same proportions of character size and empty space as the form.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an advertisement printed only on tobacco products in the package.