1Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1)

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Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 229

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated 6 October 2005

P. M. JEFFREY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRIS PEARCE

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Amendment of Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004

Schedule 1 amends the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 5, after definition of retail package

insert

seal means the following, as the context requires:

(a) a decorative adhesive paper or label affixed to the surface of a package to seal the wrapper;

(b) an adhesive bond.

[2] Subregulation 7 (2)

after

package

insert

(other than a larger package that complies with regulation 7A)

[3] After regulation 7

insert in Part 2

7A Fully transparent larger packages — ‘front and back’

(1) A larger package complies with this regulation if:

(a) the wrapper comprising the larger package is totally transparent; and

(b) the smaller packages contained within the larger package are:

(i) all the same kind of package; and

(ii) arranged so that:

(A) only the front face of a smaller package or packages is visible at one side of the larger package, and only the back face of a smaller package or packages is visible at the opposite side; or

(B) only the front face of a smaller package or packages is visible at one end of the larger package, and only the back face of a smaller package or packages is visible at the opposite end.

Note 1 A larger package that complies with regulation 7A is exempt from the labelling requirements in Parts 3 and 4 — see subregulation 7 (2).