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the TPCPI Regulations or the Competition and Consumer (Tobacco) Information Standard 2011 ("the Tobacco Information Standard")[1].
The Tobacco Information Standard
The Tobacco Information Standard was made pursuant to the CCA[2]. It came into partial effect on 1 January 2012 and will apply to all tobacco products on and after 1 December 2012[3]. Apart from the health warnings which it mandates, it will require the "Quitline" logo which consists of the registered trade mark, in respect of health education services, of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria comprising the word "Quitline" and the Quitline telephone number to overlay most graphics[4].
Pre-existing health warnings
The placement of health warnings on cigarette packets is mandated by the TPCPI Regulations. Those Regulations were made under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), which has been replaced by the CCA. They predated the enactment of the TPP Act. Indeed such warnings have been required since the 1970s.
The TPCPI Regulations provide for "a system of warnings, explanatory messages and graphic images to increase consumer knowledge of health effects relating to smoking, to encourage the cessation of smoking and to discourage uptake or relapse."[5] A package in which tobacco is sold at retail ("a retail package")[6] and which is manufactured in Australia, or imported into Australia 32, must be labelled in accordance with Pt 3 or Pt 4 of the TPCPI Regulations[7].
- ↑ Amendment Regulations, Sched 1 [15] inserting reg 2.6.1.
- ↑ CCA, Sched 2, s 134.
- ↑ Tobacco Information Standard, s 1.5.
- ↑ Tobacco Information Standard, ss 1.3(6), 3.1(2), 4,1(2); subs (3) of each of 3.2–3.8 and 4.2–4.8; subs (2) of each of ss 5.3–5.6; ss 9.4(3), 9.4(4).
- ↑ TPCPI Regulations, reg 3A.
- ↑ TPCPI Regulations, reg 4.
- ↑ The TPCI Regulations, Sched 1, sets out the requirements for labelling for the purpose of Pt 3 relating to retail packaging manufactured or imported before 1 March 2006. Schedule 2 sets out the requirements for labelling for the purpose of Pt 4 relating to retail packaging manufactured or imported after 1 March 2006.
