New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (TOBACCO) ACT 2008 - SECT 14

14 Regulation of product display on tobacco or e-cigarette vending machines

(1) A person who owns or is the lessee of a tobacco or e-cigarette vending machine situated in premises in New South Wales for the purpose of the sale of tobacco products, non-tobacco smoking products, e-cigarettes or e-cigarette accessories must ensure that a statement in the form (if any) prescribed by the regulations is kept conspicuously displayed on the front of the vending machine.

(2) A person who owns or is the lessee of a tobacco vending machine in New South Wales must ensure that--

(a) the tobacco products contained in the vending machine are not displayed so as to be in view of members of the public, and

(b) no information about tobacco products, or representation of a tobacco product or package of a tobacco product, is displayed on the vending machine other than permissible information.

(3) For the purposes of this section,
"permissible information" that may be displayed on a tobacco vending machine is--

(a) any information, statement or symbol required by law to be displayed on the vending machine, and

(b) the name and description of the tobacco products for sale in the vending machine, and their price, displayed in black writing on a white background and in letters or figures of not more than 1 centimetre in width and 1 centimetre in height.

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