New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) ACT 2008 - SECT 6

6 Certain sales prohibited

(1) A person must not sell a tobacco product that is not in the package in which it was packed by the manufacturer.

(2) A person must not sell cigarettes as individual items or in a package containing fewer than 20.

(3) This section does not apply to the sale of single cigars.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), a quantity of tobacco product that exceeds the amount prescribed by the regulations is presumed to be for the purposes of sale if--

(a) it is on premises where tobacco products are being sold, and

(b) it is not in the package in which it was packed by the manufacturer.

Any such presumption is rebuttable.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units, in the case of an individual and 500 penalty units, in the case of a corporation.