New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

2 Interpretation

• (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  Back, in relation to any cigarette pack, means the face on which an explanatory message is (or but for some other provision of these regulations would be) required by regulation 12 to be displayed

  Carton means a package comprising 2 or more tobacco packages within—

  • (a) A container; or

  • (b) A wrapper that obscures or tends to obscure any writing on any of those packages that would be legible if it were completely transparent:

  Cigar means a tobacco product comprising a roll of tobacco leaf or cut tobacco, enclosed in tobacco leaf or the leaf of another plant

  Cigarette means a tobacco product comprising a roll of cut tobacco, enclosed in paper

  Cigarette pack means a retail package containing cigarettes

  Corresponding explanatory message, in relation to a warning message, means the explanatory message set out opposite it in Schedule 1

  Cylindrical means having a circular or elliptical cross-section

  Displayed, in relation to any package, face, or flap, means displayed on the outside of the package, face, or flap

  Explanatory message means a message set out in column 3 of Schedule 1

  Face, in relation to a retail package, means a more or less flat area of the surface of the package that is bounded by edges of the package

  Flip-top pack means a retail package of the kind commonly called a flip-top pack, a hinge-top pack, or a hinge-lid box

  Front, in relation to any cigarette pack, means the face on which a warning message is (or but for some other provision of these regulations would be) required by regulation 9 to be displayed

  Larger, in relation to a face, means of greater area (and largest has a corresponding meaning); but, in relation to a retail package with 2 or more faces of equal area that are larger than any other,—

  • (a) The largest faces means those faces; and

  • (b) The largest face means any of those faces:

  List of harmful constituents means the list required by regulation 20 (modified in accordance with regulation 21)

  Pouch pack means a retail package made, from flexible material, in the form of a rectangular pocket with a flap covering the opening

  The principal Act means the Smoke-free Environments Act 1990

  Rectangular includes square

  Retail package—

  • (a) Means a tobacco package intended for retail sale as a single unit; and

  • (b) If a retail package is a carton, includes every tobacco package it contains (whether or not it is intended for retail sale as a single unit:

  Sides,—

  • (a) In relation to any cylindrical cigarette pack, means the 2 parts of the curved surface of the pack forming the cross-section that, if the vertical centre-line of the largest brand-name on that surface is taken to be 0°, extend around the cross-section—

    • (i) From 60° to 120°; and

    • (ii) From 240° to 300°:

  • (b) In relation to any cigarette pack with 2 hexagonal and 6 rectangular faces, or 2 octagonal and 8 rectangular faces, means the rectangular faces other than the front and back:

  • (c) In relation to any cigarette pack that is a cuboid carton, means the larger 2 of the 4 faces other than the front and back:

  • (d) In relation to any other cigarette pack, means the surfaces of the pack, other than the front and back, that are vertical when it is held so that the axis of the cigarettes within it is vertical;—

  and side has a corresponding meaning

  Soft pack means a retail package of the kind commonly called a soft package or a soft cup

  Tobacco package has the meaning given to it by regulation 3(1)

  Warning message means a message set out in column 2 of Schedule 1

  Wrapper means a wrapping containing a retail package or several retail packages; and includes a non-removable adhesive label or sticker securely attached to it.

  (2) A tobacco package may be intended for retail sale as a single unit, even if it is also intended for any or all of the following:

  • (a) Sale of any other kind:

  • (b) Transporting retail packages contained within it:

  • (c) Holding or displaying, for separate retail sale, retail packages contained within it.