ACT, No. 3 OF 2015

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PARLIAMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF
SRI LANKA
NATIONAL AUTHORITY ON TOBACCO AND
ALCOHOL (AMENDMENT)
ACT, No. 3 OF 2015
[Certified on 03rd March, 2015]
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Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of March 06, 2015
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National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol 1
(Amendment) Act, No. 3 of 2015
[Certified on 03rd March, 2015]
L.D.—O. 8/2015.
ANACT TO AMEND THE NATIONAL AUTHORITY ON TOBACCO AND
ALCOHOL ACT, NO. 27 OF 2006
BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the National Authority on Short title.
Tobacco and Alcohol (Amendment) Act, No. 3 of 2015.
2. Section 34 of the National Authority on Tobacco and Replacement of
Alcohol Act, No. 27 of 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the section 34 of
Act, No. 27 of
“principal enactment”) is hereby repealed and the following
2006.
section substituted therefor:—
“Prohibition 34 (1) A manufacturer or an importer of a
of the tobacco product shall cause to be displayed
manufacture,
conspicuously and in legible print—
sale, import
etc. of
tobacco (a) on the top surface area of both front
products
and back sides of every packet, package
without
health or carton containing the tobacco
warnings and product manufactured or imported by
a label or a such manufacturer or importer, health
statement of
warnings, as may be prescribed, subject
tar and
nicotine to the provisions of section 34A; and
content.
(b) on every packet, package or carton
containing the tobacco product
manufactured or imported by such
manufacturer or importer, a lable or a
statement specifying the tar and
nicotine content in each tobacco
product in such packet, package or
carton.
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(Amendment) Act, No. 3 of 2015
(2) A person shall not sell, offer for sale,
supply, distribute or store a packet, package or
carton containing tobacco products unless
health warnings as provided for in subsection
(1) (a) and a label or a statement as provided
for in subsection (1)(b), are displayed
conspicuously in legible print on every packet,
package or carton containing the tobacco
products.
(3) Any person who contravenes the
provisions of subsection (1) or subsection (2),
commits an offence and on conviction after
summary trial by a Magistrate be liable to a
fine not exceeding rupees fifty thousand or to
an imprisonment of either description for a term
not exceeding one year or to both such fine
and imprisonment.”.
Insertion of new 3. The following new section is hereby inserted
section 34A in immediately after section 34 of the principal enactment and
the principal
shall have effect as section 34A of the principal enactment:—
enactment.
“How to 34A. (1) A manufacturer or an importer of
display cigarettes and other tobacco products shall
health
cause to be printed the health warnings referred
warnings.
to in section 34(1), covering an area of eighty
per centum of the top surface area (principle
display area) of both front and back sides of
every packet, package or carton containing
cigarettes and other tobacco products.
(2) The health warnings referred to in the
foregoing subsection, shall indicate in the
prescribed manner, the health hazards and the
harmful effects caused by the usage of
cigarettes and other tobacco products.
(3) The health warnings on the front and
back sides of the packet, package or carton
shall defer from each other.
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(Amendment) Act, No. 3 of 2015
(4) Where a manufacturer manufactures
more than one brand of cigarettes and other
tobacco products, the manufacturer shall ensure
that two different brands manufactured by such
manufacturer shall not bear the same health
warning, simultaneously.
(5) The health warnings displayed on the
packets, packages or cartons of cigarettes and
other tobacco products shall be changed once
in every six months, so that all types of
prescribed health warnings under all prescribed
categories of health warnings shall be covered.
(6) The manufacturers and importers of
cigarettes and other tobacco products shall use
the compact disc containing the prescribed
health warnings which shall be issued only by
the Authority.”.
4. Section 45 of the principal enactment is hereby Amendment of
amended by the insertion immedialely after the definition sectionm 45 of
the principal
of the expression “Chairman” of the following definition:—
enactment.
“ “Health warnings” includes pictures or pictograms
and messages.”.
5. The manufacturers and importes of existing stocks of Transitional.
tobacco products shall be granted a grace period up to June provisions.
1, 2015, to comply with the provisions of section 34A.
6. Regulations made under section 30 read with section Savings
34 of the principal enactment prior to the date of
commencement of this Act shall, continue to be in operation
with effect from the date of commencement of this Act, in so
far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
7. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala Sinhala text to
and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail. prevail in case
of inconsistency.

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