28Prohibition of sponsorships

28 Prohibition of sponsorships (a) the person promotes or agrees to promote, under a contract, agreement, undertaking or understanding, whether or not legally binding— (i) a smoking product, or the use of a smoking product; or name, of a smoking product; or the smoking product; and (b) the person does so in exchange for a sponsorship, gift, prize, scholarship or similar benefit given or agreed to be given by someone else. (2) A person commits an offence if— (a) the person gives or agrees to give, under a contract, agreement, undertaking or understanding, whether or not legally binding, a sponsorship, gift, prize, scholarship or similar benefit; and

(b) the person does so in exchange for the promotion of, or an agreement to promote, a thing mentioned in subsection (1) (a). (3) This section does not apply in relation to a scholarship given, or agreed to be given, by a manufacturer or distributor of a smoking product to an employee, or a family member of an employee, of the manufacturer or distributor. mentioned in s (3) (see Criminal Code, s 58). family member, of a person, means— (a) the person’s domestic partner; or (b) a parent, step-parent or grandparent of the person; or (c) a child, stepchild or grandchild of the person; or (d) a brother, sister, stepbrother or stepsister of the person.

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