Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations

Marginal note:Source document

• 88 (1) The health warnings that are required for a tobacco product and must be displayed on packages are the health warnings set out for that type of product in the following Sections of the source document:

  • (a) in the case of cigarettes, Section A;

  • (b) in the case of little cigars, Section B;

  • (c) in the case of cigarette tobacco and tubes, Section C;

  • (d) in the case of cigars, Section D;

  • (e) in the case of pipe tobacco, Section E;

  • (f) in the case of chewing tobacco and snuff, Section F;

  • (g) Section G, in the case of

    • (i) tobacco products that are made in whole or in part of tobacco and intended for use with devices that are necessary for the use of those tobacco products,

    • (ii) devices referred to in subparagraph (i), and

    • (iii) parts that may be used with those devices;

  • (h) in the case of water pipe tobacco, Section H; and

  • (i) in the case of other tobacco products that are made in whole or in part of tobacco, Section I.

• Marginal note:Health warnings — rotation

  (2) The health warnings that are set out in the source document for each type of tobacco product must be used in rotation, beginning on the day on which these Regulations come into force, with each of the rotations set out in the source document being applicable during the following periods:

  • (a) in the case of cigarettes, little cigars, cigarette tobacco and tubes, 24 months; and

  • (b) in the case of any other type of tobacco product, 36 months.

• Marginal note:First rotation

  (3) Despite paragraph (2)(a), in the case of cigarettes, little cigars, cigarette tobacco and tubes, the first rotation of health warnings applies during the period that begins on the day on which these Regulations come into force and ends on July 31, 2026.

• Marginal note:Rotation — transition

  (4) The health warnings set out in a rotation in the source document may be used during the period of 90 days before the day on which that rotation applies in accordance with subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Retail sale continued

  (5) Despite paragraph (2)(b), if a new rotation of health warnings becomes applicable in respect of a type of tobacco product referred to in that paragraph that is sold, by a retailer, in a package that displays a health warning of the preceding rotation, the preceding rotation continues to apply.