Public Health (Tobacco) Act, 2002

Prohibition of certain marketing practices.

38.—(1) It shall be an offence for a person to sell cigarettes by retail other than in a packet containing not less than 20 cigarettes.

(2) It shall be an offence for a person to manufacture, import, supply, sell or invite an offer to purchase an oral smokeless tobacco product.

(3) It shall be an offence for a person to sell confectioneries normally intended for sale to children, that have been manufactured in such a way as to resemble in appearance a type of tobacco product.

(4) It shall be an offence for a person to—

(a) import,

(b) sell (by retail or otherwise), or

(c) otherwise supply to, or invite an offer to purchase by, any person,

a tobacco product, the packaging of which does not bear a warning in such form and of such a type as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, that is intended to inform the public that the consumption of the product is injurious to health, and a statement containing such other information as may be so prescribed in such form as may be so prescribed.

(5) It shall be an offence for a person to—

(a) import,

(b) sell (by retail or otherwise), or

(c) otherwise supply to, or invite an offer to purchase by, any person,

a tobacco product, the packaging of which does not bear a number in such form as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, that enables the lot or batch from which the product originated and the date and place of its manufacture to be ascertained.

(6) It shall be an offence for a person to supply free of charge to a member of the public any tobacco product for the purpose of promoting the consumption of that product.

(7) It shall be an offence for a person to supply or sell to a member of the public any voucher, coupon or other document or thing (intended to be used as a substitute for money) for the purpose of its being—

(a) used as payment or payment in part, or

(b) otherwise exchanged,

for a tobacco product.

(8) It shall be an offence for a person to sell a tobacco product by retail, or supply a tobacco product to, or invite an offer to purchase by, a member of the public of a tobacco product where part of the consideration to be given to the purchaser is a gift, token, trading stamp, coupon or other document or thing that may be exchanged for or used as payment or payment in part for certain goods.

(9) The Minister may, for the purpose of ensuring that the price at which a tobacco product is sold does not constitute a sales promotion device, by regulations make such provision in relation to the price at which tobacco products or tobacco products of such class as may be specified in the regulations may be sold as he or she considers appropriate.

(10) A person who sells or invites an offer to purchase a tobacco product in contravention of regulations under subsection (9) shall be guilty of an offence.