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Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990.

Country/Territory
New Zealand
Document type
Legislation
Date
1990 (2021)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants, General
Keyword
Tobacco Internal trade Packaging/labelling Business/industry/corporations Traceability/product tracing Consumer protection Vending Hazardous substances Public health Enforcement/compliance Offences/penalties Social protection Use restrictions
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, South Pacific
Abstract

The purposes of this Act are, in general, as follows: (a) to reduce the exposure of people who do not themselves smoke to any detrimental effect on their health caused by smoking by others; and (b) to prevent the normalisation of vaping; and (c) to regulate and control the marketing, advertising, and promotion of regulated products (whether directly, including through the appearance of regulated products and packages, or through the sponsoring of other products, services, or events) in order to improve public health by— (i) discouraging people, especially children and young people, from taking up smoking; and (ii) discouraging non-smokers, especially children and young people, from taking up vaping or using smokeless tobacco products; and (iii) encouraging people to stop smoking, vaping, or otherwise using regulated products; and (iv) discouraging people who have stopped smoking, vaping, or otherwise using regulated products from resuming smoking, vaping, or using regulated products; and (d) to support smokers to switch to regulated products that are significantly less harmful than smoking; and (e) to regulate the safety of vaping products and smokeless tobacco products; and (f) to monitor and regulate the presence of harmful constituents found in regulated products and their emissions; and (g) to give effect to certain obligations and commitments that New Zealand has as a party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, done at Geneva on 21 May 2003.

Full text
English
Website
www.legislation.govt.nz

References - Legislation

Implemented by

Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Regulations 2021.

Legislation | New Zealand | 2021

Keyword: Public health, Consumer protection, Vending, Hazardous substances, Tobacco, Internal trade, Packaging/labelling, Business/industry/corporations, Traceability/product tracing

Source: FAO, FAOLEX