New Zealand Legislation: Acts

21 Purpose of this Part

• The purpose of this Part is—

  • (a) To reduce the social approval of tobacco use, particularly among young people, by—

    • (i) Imposing controls on the marketing, advertising, or promotion of tobacco products and their association through sponsorship with other products and events; and

    • (ii) Requiring health messages and other information to be displayed on, or included with, packages containing tobacco products, and on automatic vending machines; and

    • (iii) prohibiting the sale of toy tobacco products to people younger than 18 years; and

  • (b) To reduce some of the harmful effects of tobacco products on the health of users by monitoring and regulating the presence of harmful substances in the products and in tobacco smoke; and

  • (c) To facilitate the harmonisation of the laws of New Zealand and Australia relating to the labelling of tobacco products (including, without limitation, requirements relating to the display of health messages).

  Section 21 was substituted, as from 29 July 1997, by section 6 Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 32).

  Paragraph (a)(iii) was inserted, as from 11 December 2003, by section 15 Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 127).