Tobacco control legislation review

Tobacco control legislation

Our tobacco control legislation includes:

• Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992
• Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Regulation 1993
• Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011
• Tobacco Plain Packaging Regulations 2011

We have been reviewing this legislation to make sure that it:

• is still effective
• responds to changes in technology.

What we are reviewing

The review is looking at:

• what is working well in the current legislation
• what, if any, changes we can make to the legislation
• whether any provisions in the legislation are redundant
• whether any parts of the legislation are overcomplicated, ambiguous or unclear
• whether regulations can be simpler and easier to enforce
• any other aspects of tobacco control that the Australian Government should consider and prioritise.

How we review this legislation

We involve a range of stakeholders when we review legislation.

For this review process we:

• opened a publicly available online consultation from January to March 2019
• ran a series of stakeholder workshops from May to July 2019.

You can view the public submissions and read the outcomes of the process on our Consultation Hub.

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