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Tobacco Control (Amendment) Act 2008

TONGA.

TOBACCO CONTROL (AMENDMENT) ACT 2008
No. 8 of 2008.

I assent,
GEORGE TUPOU V,
13th February, 2009.

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE TOBACCO CONTROL ACT 2000

BE IT ENACTED by the King and the Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Act 2008.

(2) The Tobacco Control Act 2000, as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended as follows by deleting the term –

(a) "tobacco" and its definition; and

(b) "tobacco product" and its definition and substituting the following:-

"tobacco product" means any of the following:-

(a) tobacco in a form prepared for human consumption or use;

(b) a cigarette or cigar or any other product the main or a substantial ingrediant of which is tobacco and which is designed for human consumption or use; or

(c) a product prepared for smoking that contains a herb or other plan matter, whether or not the product also contains tobacco."

Passed in the Legislative Assembly this 8th day of September, 2008.