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Hon Jenny Salesa
Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill
Government Bill
222—2
Contents
Commentary
Key
1
Title
2
Commencement
Part 1
Amendments to Smoke-free Environments Act 1990
3
Principal Act
4
Title of principal Act changed
5
Section 2 amended (Interpretation)
6
Section 3A replaced (Purposes of this Act)
3A
Purposes of this Act
7
New section 3B inserted (Transitional, savings, and related provisions)
3B
Transitional, savings, and related provisions
8
Part 1 heading replaced
Part 1
Smoking and vaping prohibited in workplaces and public areas
9
Section 4 amended (Purposes of this Part)
10
Section 5 amended (Smoking in workplaces prohibited)
11
Section 5A amended (Employer may permit smoking in vehicle with consent of users)
12
Section 6 amended (Dedicated smoking rooms in hospital care institutions, residential disability care institutions, and rest homes)
13
Section 7A amended (Smoking prohibited at schools and early childhood education and care centres)
14
Section 8 amended (Smoking prohibition on aircraft)
15
Section 9 amended (Smoking restricted in passenger service vehicles)
16
Section 11 amended (Smoking prohibited in certain travel premises
17
Section 12 amended (Smoking on licensed premises)
18
Section 13 amended (Smoking in restaurants)
19
Section 13A amended (Smoking in casinos)
20
Section 13B amended (Smoking in certain gaming machine venues)
21
Section 14 replaced (Enforcement officers)
14
Specialist vape retailers and vaping in approved vaping premises exempt
14A
Application for approval as specialist vape retailer
22
Section 15 amended (Complaints relating to workplace smoking)
23
Section 17 amended (Offences in respect of smoking)
24
Section 17A amended (Penalties)
25
Section 18 amended (Prosecution of offences)
25A
Section 19 repealed (Protection of persons acting under authority of Act)
26
Parts 2 to 3 replaced
Part 2
Restrictions on advertising, promotion, sale, and distribution of regulated products
21
Outline of this Part
22
Purposes of this Part
Subpart 1—Restrictions on advertising of regulated products
23
Publishing regulated product advertisement prohibited
24
Specified publications exempt from advertising prohibition
25
Retailers, vending machines, and Internet sellers exempt from advertising prohibition in certain circumstances
26
Liability of employees, employers, agents, and principals
Subpart 2—Restrictions on sponsorship and related activities
27
Defined terms in this subpart
28
Sponsoring activity involving use of trade mark, etc, of regulated product
s
29
Sponsoring activity involving exclusive supply arrangement
30
Use of trade marks, etc, on goods other than regulated products or in relation to sponsored events
31
Exemption for craft in emergencies
Subpart 3—Prohibited ways of supplying and distributing regulated products
32
Free distribution of regulated product prohibited
33
Distribution and supply of regulated product
s
with other product
s
prohibited
Subpart 4—Inducements and rewards involving regulated products prohibited
34
Rewards involving regulated product prohibited
35
Arrangements conflicting with Act have no effect
Subpart 5—Visibility of regulated products
36
Regulated product (other than vaping product) must not be visible from place of business
Subpart 6—Information and warnings at point of sale and on Internet
37
Point-of-sale health information or warning signs
38
Internet-sales health information or warnings
Subpart 7—Sale of regulated products and toy regulated products to people under 18 years
39
Sale and delivery of regulated product to people younger than 18 years prohibited
40
Supplying regulated product to people younger than 18 years prohibited
41
Sale of toy regulated product
s
to people younger than 18 years prohibited
42
Point-of-sale purchase age information
43
Internet-sales purchase age information or warnings
44
Court may order certain repeat offenders not to sell regulated product
Subpart 8—Sale of regulated products by way of automatic vending machines
45
Regulated product
s
(other than vaping product)
must not be visible from outside automatic vending machines
46
Automatic vending machines must not be located where public have access
47
Automatic vending machines must display health messages required by or under this Act
Part 3
Packaging, labelling, and constituents of regulated products
48
Purposes of this Part
Subpart 1—Packaging and labelling requirements
49
Standardised packaging of regulated products
50
Offence in respect of standardised packaging of regulated products
51
Messages and information required for regulated product package
52
Restrictions on sale of certain regulated products in small quantities
53
Regulated product not to be advertised or labelled as suitable for chewing, etc
Restrictions on advertising, labelling, and sale of oral use products
Subpart 2—Constituents of regulated products
54
Limits on harmful constituents of tobacco products and herbal smoking products
55
Annual testing for constituents of prescribed regulated products
56
Director-General may require testing or further testing
Part 4
Regulated products that must be notified
57
Purpose of this Part
58
Defined terms
59
Notifier must not sell product unless it has been notified
60
Notifier must be New Zealand resident or company registered in New Zealand
61
Pre-notification requirements
62
How to notify product
63
Obligations of retailers
64
Obligation to notify adverse reaction
65
When notifiable product must be renotified
66
Substances that notifiable
Notifiable
product must not contain
prohibited substance, prohibited flavour, or colouring substance
66A
Substances in notifiable product must not exceed maximum limits
67
Declaration of prohibited
ingredient
substance
68
Director-General may require notifier to provide information about safety of notifiable product
69
Director-General may issue warning
70
Recall
71
Director-General may suspend product notification
72
Cancellation of product notification
72A
Appeals against decision to suspend or cancel product notification
73
Establishment of database and confidentiality of certain information
73A
Technical advisory committee
73B
Appeals committee
Part 5
Regulations, enforcement, and other matters
74
Outline
Subpart 1—Regulations
75
Regulations
76
Regulations under section 75
77
Regulations for standardised packaging (including messages and information)
Notifiable products
78
Regulations relating to notifiable products
79
Regulations imposing fees
80
Regulations imposing levies
Subpart 2—Infringement offences
81
Infringement offences
82
Commission of infringement offences
83
Infringement notices
84
Payment of infringement fees
Subpart 3—Enforcement officers
85
Appointment of enforcement officers
86
Protection of people acting under authority of this Act
87
Powers of entry and inspection
88
Enforcement officer may require identifying information
89
Search warrant
90
Purposes for which powers may be used
91
Duties of enforcement officers
92
Offence to obstruct enforcement officers, intentionally fail to comply with
section 87
, or give false and misleading information
93
Enforcement
Subpart 4—Annual returns and reports
94
Annual reporting requirements for manufacturers, importers, and specialist vape retailers
27
Schedule amended
28
New Schedule 2 inserted
Part 2
Amendments to other enactments
29
Enactments amended
Schedule 1
New Part 2 inserted into Schedule
Schedule 2
New Schedule 2 inserted
Schedule 3
Enactments amended
Legislative history
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows: