Tobacco Act 1987
5GRetail shopping centres: no smoking signs
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5G Retail shopping centres: no smoking signs
(1) The occupier of a retail shopping centre is guilty of an offence if, without reasonable excuse, acceptable no smoking signs are not displayed in accordance with subsection (2).
(2) The signs must be displayed in such prominent positions at entrances to any enclosed areas of the centre as would reasonably identify those areas of the centre as no smoking areas for persons entering them.
S. 5G(3) amended by No. 49/2009 s. 14.
(3) The maximum penalty for an offence against subsection (1) is 10 penalty units in the case of a natural person and 50 penalty units in the case of a body corporate.
S. 5H inserted by No. 31/2002 s. 9, substituted by No. 45/2005 s. 5.