The Short Title of this Act is “The Juvenile Smoking Suppression Act, 1903.”

Every person who sells, gives, or supplies any cigarette, cigar, or tobacco in any form to any youth under the age of fifteen years shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding ten pounds.

Every youth under the age of fifteen years who in a public place as defined by section two of “The Police Offences Act, 1884,” smokes a cigarette, cigar, or any part thereof, or tobacco in any form, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable for the first offence to have a conviction recorded against him, or for the second and subsequent offence to a penalty of not exceeding five shillings.

No youth shall be convicted under this Act for using or smoking tobacco, cigars, or cigarettes if he produces a certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner to the effect that the using or smoking of tobacco, cigars, or cigarettes is beneficial to the health of such youth; and no person shall be liable to conviction for supplying tobacco, cigars, or cigarettes to any such youth to whom such medical practitioner has given a certificate as aforesaid.

The amount of any penalty imposed under section two of this Act may be recovered in a summary manner under “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

No youth shall be liable to imprisonment in respect of any penalty imposed under section three hereof.

This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four.