Victorian Consolidated Regulations

TOBACCO REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 11

For the purposes of section 6(3)(cb) of the Act, the prescribed requirements for tickets and labels on, or adjacent to, immediate packages of tobacco products are—

        (a)     the size of the ticket or label is not greater than the size of the largest immediate package of the tobacco product on display; and

        (b)     the information contained in the ticket or label is the price of the product line and any one or more of the following—

              (i)     the name of the product line;

              (ii)     the strength of the product line;

              (iii)     the flavour and the number of items contained in the product line;

              (iv)     the average weekly sales of the product line;

              (v)     any identifying category information related to the product line;

              (vi)     a bar code or a similar identifying code for the product line;

              (vii)     the country of origin of the product line, including any symbol representing the country of origin; and

        (c)     the manner in which the information contained in a ticket or label is set out or displayed is as follows—

              (i)     the letters and numbers have a width not greater than one centimetre and a height not greater than 2·1 centimetres;

              (ii)     the letters and numbers are printed or written in black or white or in not more than 4 colours, with no colour being fluorescent;

              (iii)     the information is not more distinctive than tickets or labels used in relation to other goods within the premises;

              (iv)     the information taken together with the information in one or more other tickets or labels on the premises does not form an image or have a visual effect;

              (v)     the information is not highlighted by any artificial lighting greater than that used throughout the premises.