Jersey Law 22/1973

RESTRICTION ON SMOKING (JERSEY) LAW, 1973.

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A LAW   to enable the States to make Regulations for the purposes of reducing the risks to health due to smoking, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

24th day of OCTOBER, 1973.

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(Registered on the 23rd day of November, 1973).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 27th day of March, 1973.

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

ARTICLE 1

POWER OF STATES TO MAKE REGULATIONS

(1)           The States may, by Regulations, make such provisions as they consider necessary for providing against the risks to health due to smoking, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any such Regulations may –

(a)     require notices of a kind specified in the Regulations to be printed on, or inserted into, each packet or container of cigarettes imported into, or manufactured in, the Island, warning of the danger to health of smoking and of the nicotine, tar and sugar content of the cigarettes;

(b)     prohibit or restrict, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the Regulations –

(i)      smoking in places of public entertainment, or public transport;

(ii)     any advertisement designed to promote the habit of smoking;

(iii)    the sale of cigarettes to persons under such minimum age as shall be specified in the Regulations.

(2)           Regulations made under this Article shall define the meaning of the expressions “cigarette”, “packet or container”, “public entertainment”, “public transport” and “advertisement” and different meanings may be given to meet different circumstances or different classes of circumstances.

ARTICLE 2

PENALTIES

(1)           Any person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any Regulation made under this Law shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds.

(2)           Any person who being the occupier of any place of public entertainment or being concerned in the management of any such place permits smoking in that place contrary to any Regulation made under this Law shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds.

ARTICLE 3

CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT

This Law may be cited as the Restriction on Smoking (Jersey) Law, 1973.

E.J.M. POTTER

Greffier of the States.