New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

11 Warning messages to appear in rotation

• (1) The 6 warning messages must be displayed in rotation, so that in each calendar year, as nearly as possible, each of them appears on an equal number of retail packages of the same kind of tobacco product.

  (2) For the purposes of subclause (1), tobacco products are not of the same kind if, and only if,—

  • (a) They are sold under different brand names; or

  • (b) They are sold under the same brand name; but differ in 1 or more of the following ways:

    • (i) Containing or not containing menthol:

    • (ii) Being otherwise differently flavoured:

    • (iii) Producing different quantities of tar:

    • (iv) Allegedly differing in mildness:

    • (v) Having or not having filter tips or cork tips:

    • (vi) Being sold in retail packages containing different numbers of pieces:

    • (vii) Being of different length or mass.