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PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO AND OTHER PRODUCTS) REGULATIONS 2024 (F2024L00415) - REG 95

Mandatory marking--name and address

  (1)   The primary packaging, and the secondary packaging, of a tobacco product must display the name and address of the entity in Australia:

  (a)   who packaged the product; or

  (b)   on whose behalf it was packaged.

Requirements for name and address of Australian entity

  (2)   The name of the entity must be one of the following:

  (a)   if the entity has a business name registered to it under the Business Names Registration Act 2011 --that business name;

  (b)   if the entity is a company registered under the Corporations Act 2001 --that company name.

  (3)   The address of the entity must be one of the following:

  (a)   if the entity has a business name registered to it under the Business Names Registration Act 2011 --the address of the entity's principal place of business in Australia registered under that Act;

  (b)   if the entity is a company registered under the Corporations Act 2001 --the address of the entity's principal place of business in Australia registered under that Act.

  (4)   The name and address must:

  (a)   appear on only one outer surface of the retail packaging of the tobacco product; and

  (b)   appear only once on that surface; and

  (c)   be printed:

  (i)   in the typeface known as Lucida Sans; and

  (ii)   no larger than 3 mm in size; and

  (iii)   in a normal weighted regular font; and

  (iv)   in the colour known as Pantone Cool Gray 2C; and

  (d)   for a cigarette pack or cigarette carton--appear only on the side outer surface of the pack or carton on which a health warning is not displayed.

Interaction with National Trade Measurement Regulations   2009

  (5)   The requirements of this section   apply in addition to any requirements to mark a name and address on the primary packaging, or secondary packaging, of a tobacco product under regulation   4.7 of the National Trade Measurement Regulations   2009 .

  (6)   Any such marking under that regulation must be printed in the colour known as Pantone Cool Gray 2C.

  (7)   To avoid doubt, nothing in this section   requires a name and address to be displayed more than once on the retail packaging of a tobacco product.



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