New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

10 Format of information message: cigarettes and loose or pipe tobacco

• (1) This regulation applies to the information message that must be displayed on a retail package containing cigarettes or loose or pipe tobacco.

  (2) The text of the information message must be printed—

  • (a) in white on a black background; and

  • (b) in the typeface known as Helvetica; and

  • (c) in bold type and in upper-case and lower-case letters as the text of the message is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 4, in type that is—

    • (i) clear and legible; and

    • (ii) of such a size that the text, as nearly as possible, fills the background on which it is printed.