Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990

Restrictions on advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of regulated products - Restrictions on sponsorship and related activities

32: Exemption for craft in emergencies

You could also call this:

"Boats in emergencies don't have to follow some smoking and vaping rules"

Illustration for Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990

If you are on a boat that has a sign with a regulated product's trade mark or company name on it, and you have to come to New Zealand because of a health or safety issue, or to save a life or property, some rules do not apply to you. These rules are in sections 23, 30, and 31 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990, which you can find at sections 23, 30, and 31. As long as you are in New Zealand for one of these reasons, those rules do not apply to your boat.

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Health and wellbeing > Public healthTransport and travel > BoatingEmergency management > Emergency management

31: Use of trade marks, etc, on goods other than regulated products or in relation to sponsored events, or

"Don't put a regulated product's logo on other things that aren't related to that product"

33: Free distribution of regulated product prohibited, or

"You can't give away regulated products for free or cheap to get more customers."

Part 2Restrictions on advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of regulated products
Restrictions on sponsorship and related activities

32Exemption for craft in emergencies

In this section, craft with a prohibited display means a craft on which is displayed the trade mark of a regulated product or the company name of a regulated product manufacturer.
If a craft with a prohibited display is compelled to enter New Zealand by reason of health or safety, or for the preservation of life or property, nothing in sections 23, 30, and 31 applies to that craft as long as it is in New Zealand for any of those reasons.

Notes

Section 32: inserted, on 11 November 2020, by section 27 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 62).