New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) ACT 2008 - SECT 15A

15A Application of Part to e-cigarettes and e-cigarette accessories

(1) This Part applies in relation to e-cigarette advertisements and e-cigarettes in the same way as it applies in relation to tobacco advertisements and tobacco products, respectively.

(2) For this purpose--

(a) each reference in this Part to a tobacco advertisement is to be read as including a reference to an e-cigarette advertisement, and

(b) each reference in this Part to a tobacco product is to be read as including a reference to an e-cigarette, and

(c) the reference to otherwise than by smoking in section 21 (1), in its application to e-cigarettes, is to be read as including a reference to otherwise than by inhalation of an aerosol or vapour.

(3) In this section, an
"e-cigarette advertisement" means writing, or any still or moving picture, sign, symbol or other visual image or message or audible message, or a combination of two or more of them, that gives publicity to, or otherwise promotes or is intended to promote--

(a) the purchase or use of an e-cigarette, or

(b) the trademark or brand name, or part of a trademark or brand name, of an e-cigarette,

but does not include anything of a kind excluded by the regulations.