New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Smoking in restaurants

• (1) The operator of a restaurant must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that no person smokes at any time in any part of the restaurant that is not an open area.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the operator of a restaurant from prohibiting smoking in a part of the restaurant that is an open area.

  (3) No person may smoke at any time in any part of a restaurant that is not an open area.

  Section 13: substituted, on 10 December 2004, by section 8 of the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 127).