Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015
Number 4 of 2015
PUBLIC HEALTH (STANDARDISED PACKAGING OF TOBACCO) ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 9 January 2023
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, and all statutory instruments up to and including Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 4 of 2015
PUBLIC HEALTH (STANDARDISED PACKAGING OF TOBACCO) ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 9 January 2023
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002 to 2015: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015 (4/2015), s. 1(2)). The Acts in this group are:
• Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015 (4/2015)
• Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2013 (17/2013)
• Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2011 (15/2011)
• Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2010 (39/2010)
• Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2009 (23/2009)
• Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2004 (6/2004)
• Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (6/2002)
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
www.lawreform.ie/annotations.
Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at
www.irishstatutebook.ie.
Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2017 (1/2017)
All Acts up to and including Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 422 of 2017)
• Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015 (Commencement) Order 2017 (S.I. No. 115 of 2017)
• Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015 (Commencement) Order 2016 (S.I. No. 270 of 2016)
All statutory instruments up to and including Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
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PUBLIC HEALTH (STANDARDISED PACKAGING OF TOBACCO) ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 9 January 2023
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, collective citation and commencement
Retail Packaging and Presentation of Tobacco Products
7. Retail packaging of cigarettes
9. Retail packaging of roll-your-own tobacco
10. Retail packaging of other tobacco products
11. Linings of tobacco products
12. Tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide yields
13. Presentation of tobacco products
14. Features of retail packaging of tobacco products
Offences, Proceedings and Penalties
15. Offences in relation to retail packaging
17. Offences by bodies corporate
19.Evidence in proceedings for an offence
Miscellaneous
20. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2002
21. Amendment of section 5A of Act of 2002
Acts Referred to
Finance Act 2005 (No. 5)
Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 23)
Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 (No. 6)
Public Health (Tobacco) Acts 2002 to 2013
Trade Marks Act 1996 (No. 6)
Number 4 of 2015
PUBLIC HEALTH (STANDARDISED PACKAGING OF TOBACCO) ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 9 January 2023
An Act to provide for standardised packaging of tobacco and tobacco products; to give effect in part to Directive No. 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 1 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products and repealing Directive 2001/37/EC; and to provide for related matters.
[10 th March, 2015]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: