Hong Kong Regulations

SMOKING (PUBLIC HEALTH) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6

Notification of retail sales

(Past version on 16/07/1999).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Upon any cigarettes being first offered for sale by retail and bearing on
their packets or retail containers the tar and nicotine yields as determined
under regulation 4, the person responsible for the wholesale distribution
thereof shall, within 2 days following such first offer, notify the Director
of Health of such offer.

(2) Any person who fails to notify the Director of Health as required by
paragraph (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction therefor
to a fine of $2000. (L.N. 76 of 1989; L.N. 13 of 1998; 21 of 2006 s. 29)