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Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Tobacco) Regulations 2004
12Position of warning message and explanatory warning
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12 Position of warning message and explanatory warning
(1) For a retail package of a kind described in item 201 or 202 of Schedule 1:
(a) the warning message is to be printed:
(i) on the face of the package specified in the relevant item; and
(ii) so that the upper edge of the background is no further than 3 millimetres below the upper edge of the face on which the message is printed; and
(b) the explanatory message is to be printed:
(i) on the face of the package that is opposite to the face on which the warning message is to be printed; and
(ii) so that the upper edge of the background is no further than 3 millimetres below the upper edge of the face on which the message is printed.
(2) For a retail package of a kind described in item 203, 205, 206 or 207 of Schedule 1:
(a) the warning message is to be printed on the face of the package specified in the relevant item; and
(b) the explanatory message is to be printed on the face of the package that is opposite to the face on which the warning message is to be printed.
(3) For a pouch described in item 204 of Schedule 1, the warning message is to be printed on the face of the pouch specified in the item.
(4) If the flap of a pouch described in item 204 of Schedule 1 is, in area, less than 33⅓% of the area of the face on which the warning message is to be printed, the explanatory message is to be printed:
(a) on the face that is partly covered by the flap when the package is closed; and
(b) not in the area that is covered by the flap when the package is closed.
(5) If the flap of a pouch described in item 204 of Schedule 1 is, in area, at least 33⅓% of the area of the face on which the warning message is to be printed, the explanatory message is to be printed on the outside of the flap.
(6) For a retail package of a kind described in item 208 of Schedule 1, the 2 warning messages are to be printed on the package as far apart as possible.
(7) For a retail package of a kind described in item 209 of Schedule 1:
(a) the warning message is to be printed on the face of the package specified in the item; and
(b) the explanatory message is to be printed as far as possible from the warning message on the package.