Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014

Public bill · Government · Presented

Standardises tobacco packaging by removing logos, colours and other branding, while allowing only brand and variant names in a uniform style alongside health warnings. It also restricts misleading packaging features, sets appearance rules for cigarettes and tobacco products, and creates offences and penalties to help reduce smoking’s appeal and protect public health.

Formal long title

Bill entitled 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 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

Last updated 12 April 2018