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
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: