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HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK ACT 2011 No. 32 - SECT 184

184 Prohibition of smoking

(1) A person must not smoke on health services land other than in a nominated smoking place.

(2) If an authorised person or security officer finds a person smoking on health services land in contravention of subsection (1), the authorised person or security officer may direct the person—

(a) to stop or refrain from smoking; or
(b) to leave the land or, if the person wishes to smoke, to smoke only in a nominated smoking place.

(3) The person must comply with the direction unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with it.

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(4) A network chief executive must not nominate a prohibited place as a smoking place.

(5) In this section—

nominated smoking place means a place nominated as a smoking place by a network chief executive, and designated as such by signs erected by the network chief executive.

prohibited place means a place in which a person must not smoke under the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998.



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