Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

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No. S 295

Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act

(Chapter 309)

Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 17 of the Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) (Labelling) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2006.

Amendment of First Schedule

2. The First Schedule to the Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) (Labelling) Regulations (Rg 2) is amended —

(a)

by deleting Warnings 1 to 6 and substituting the following Warnings:

(b)

by deleting paragraph 6 under the heading “ Specifications” and substituting the following paragraph:

“6. The GillSans typeface in white colour shall be used for the following text:

(a)	“SMOKING CAUSES GANGRENE”;
(b)	“SMOKING INCREASES MISCARRIAGE RISK”;
(c)	“SMOKING CAUSES 92% OF ORAL CANCERS”;
(d)	“SMOKING CAUSES NECK CANCER”;
(e)	“SMOKING CAUSES MOUTH DISEASES”;
(f)	“QUIT: 1800-438-2000”.”.

Transitional provision

3. Notwithstanding regulation 2, any person may, until 31st October 2006, import, sell or supply any smoked tobacco product that has been clearly and conspicuously printed with one of the warnings set out in the First Schedule to the Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) (Labelling) Regulations in force immediately before 1st August 2006.

Made this 29th day of May 2006.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[CDA (TRU) 78:29/4 Vol. 5; AG/LEG/SL/309/2003/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 37(2) of the Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act).