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Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990

Regulated products that must be notified

69: Substances in notifiable product must not exceed maximum limits

You could also call this:

"Some products can't have too much of certain substances in them for safety reasons."

If you have a notifiable product, it must not have too much of a certain substance in it. The Director-General can set a maximum limit for a substance in a notifiable product if they think it will be unsafe if there is too much of it. You can find out more about how these limits are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 4Regulated products that must be notified

69Substances in notifiable product must not exceed maximum limits

  1. A notifiable product must not contain a substance in excess of any maximum limit declared under this section.

  2. The Director-General may declare a maximum limit for a substance contained in a notifiable product if satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that exceeding the limit causes the product to become unsafe.

  3. A declaration under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes
  • Section 69: inserted, on , by section 27 of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 62).
  • Section 69(3): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).