B2
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 61/83.
Cigarette tobacco.
L.N. 61/83. Schedule.
Advertisements.
(Cap. 371, sub. leg.)
Schedule.
CAP. 371] Smoking (Public Health) (Notices) Order
[1983 Ed.
(6) No health warning or tar group designation shall be printed-
(a) upon more than one face of the packet or container on
which it appears; or
(b) across any opening in the packet or container or upon any
part of a packet which is removed when it is opened;
(c) except on the outside of a packet or container.
(7) The health warning and tar group designation which is to be borne on packets of cigarettes and on the retail containers of cigarette packets may be printed on a label securely affixed to the packets or containers-
(a) if the packets or containers are of metal or are plastic
drums;
(b) with the approval of the Commissioner of Customs and
Excise where he is satisfied-
4.
(i) the circumstances in which the packets or containers are in Hong Kong, or are to be brought to Hong Kong, are such that they could not reasonably be expected to have had printed on them a warning and designation at the time of their manufacture; and
(ii) the approval is required for a limited period of time or in relation to a particular consignment of cigarettes only.
Paragraphs 3(2), 3(3), 3(4)(b), 3(5), 3(6), 3(7) and Part II of the Schedule shall apply in the case of the health warning to be borne by containers of cigarette tobacco, save that such containers shall not bear a tar group designation.
5. (1) The provisions of this paragraph shall apply to any advertisement which is required to carry a health warning under the provisions of Part IV of the Ordinance.
(2) In this paragraph and paragraph 6 "the prescribed particulars" mean the health warning, as prescribed under sub-paragraph (3), and the tar group designation, where the advertisement is one to which section 11 of the Ordinance applies, as determined in accordance with the Smoking (Public Health) Regulations as read with paragraph 7.
(3) The health warning shall be as set out in Part III of the Schedule.
(4) The prescribed particulars shall be-
(a) placed in a separate panel within the advertisement
which---
(i) is distinguished from the remainder of the advertisement by means either of a line or by being of a different colour;