Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990

Restrictions on advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of regulated products - Information and warnings at point of sale and on Internet

38: Point-of-sale health information or warning signs

You could also call this:

"Show health warnings when selling certain products"

If you sell regulated products, you must follow certain rules. You have to display a sign that tells people about health information or warnings, and this sign must comply with the regulations made under section 81(1)(15). You must put this sign where people can easily see it, at each point where you sell the products, either outside or inside your business.

You must make sure the sign only gives health information or warnings, and does not say anything else. If you do not follow these rules without a good reason, you can get a fine of up to $2,000.

If the regulations made under section 81(1)(15) are in place, you will need to follow them when selling regulated products.

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Topics:

Health and wellbeing > Public healthBusiness > Industry rules

37: Regulated product must not be visible from place of business, or

"Hide regulated products from public view in your shop"

39: Internet-sales health information or warnings, or

"Online sellers must show health warnings on their websites"

Part 2Restrictions on advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of regulated products
Information and warnings at point of sale and on Internet

38Point-of-sale health information or warning signs

This section applies if regulations made under section 81(1)(15) requiring point-of-sale health information or warnings are in force.
A person to whom those regulations apply who offers a regulated product for sale (by retail or wholesale) must—
display a sign for the public that—
1. does no more than communicate health information or warnings; and
2. complies with those regulations; and
display the sign clearly at each point of sale at the outside of or inside the person's place of business.

A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

Notes

Section 38: inserted, on 11 November 2020, by section 27 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 62).
Section 38(1): amended, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).