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Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked.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.