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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

39: Internet-sales health information or warnings

You could also call this:

"Online sellers must show health warnings on their websites"

If you sell regulated products on the internet, you need to follow certain rules. These rules are about making sure people can see health information or warnings on your website when they visit it. You can find these rules in regulations made under section 81(1)(16).

If these regulations apply to you, you must follow them when you offer regulated products for sale online.

If you do not follow these rules without a good reason, you can get a fine of up to $2,000.

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

39Internet-sales health information or warnings

  1. This section applies if regulations made under section 81(1)(16) are in force requiring sales health information or warnings to be visible on a person’s Internet site when people access it.

  2. A person to whom those regulations apply who offers a regulated product for Internet sale (by retail or wholesale) must comply with those regulations.

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

Notes
  • Section 39: inserted, on , by section 27 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 62).
  • Section 39(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).