Smoking is a federal matter


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IT has been reported that the Health Ministry will be pushing to gazette all open-air restaurants as no-smoking areas – this is provided under Regulation 22 of the Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004.

In turn, that regulation originates from Section 36(2)(d) of the Food Act 1983, which states: “The Minister of Health may make regulations providing for the prohibition against smoking of tobacco products in specified buildings and the declaration of any place as a no-smoking place and for notices to be placed at such places”.

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