HC Deb 30 April 1971 vol 816 cc883-4
(changed from TOBACCO AND SNUFF

(HEALTH HAZARDS) BILL)
Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [23rd April], That the Clause (Regulation of labelling and advertisement of cigarettes), proposed on consideration of the Bill, as amended (in the Standing Committee), be read a Second time.
(1) A person shall not sell, by retail or otherwise, cigarettes packed in a packet containing one hundred cigarettes or less unless the packet bears the statement—
'Warning by H.M. Government
Smoking can damage your health'
5 and the statement satisfies such requirements as are prescribed with respect to its place on the packet, size and colour and with respect to such other matters, if any, as are prescribed.
(2) A person shall not, except in prescribed cases, publish in a prescribed manner an advertisement for cigarettes unless the advertisement includes the statement—
10 'Every packet carries a Government health warning'
and the statement satisfies such requirements as are prescribed with respect to its place in the layout of the advertisement, size and colour and with respect to such other matters, if any, as are prescribed.
15 (3) Regulations may provide that subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section shall have effect with the substitution for the statement specified in that subsection of such other statement as may be prescribed.
20 (4) A person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction or conviction on indictment to a fine which in the case of a summary conviction shall not exceed £400; but regulations may provide that a person who publishes an advertisement in the course of his activities in a prescribed capacity shall not by virtue of this subsection be guilty of an offence in consequence of the publication.—[Sir G. Nabarro.]

Question again proposed,

Mr. Speaker

I remind the House that with new Clause 7 we are taking the following:

As Amendments to the proposed new Clause:

Amendment (b), in line 2, leave out containing one hundred cigarettes or less'.

Amendment (c), leave out lines 3 and 4 and insert: '"Smoking IS harmful to health"'

Amendment (d), in line 7, at end insert: Provided that this subsection shall not apply when cigarettes are offered for sale in any place where the Commissioners of Customs and Excise permit such sales to be made 'duty free' or which are intended for export.

Amendment (e), in line 7, at end insert: Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to packets containing smaller packets which are labelled in accordance with the requirements of this Act.

Amendment (g), in line 8, leave out subsection (2).

Amendment (h), in line 13, at end insert: Provided that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to—

  1. (i) advertisements in publications which are intended for sale or display abroad;
  2. (ii) advertisements in publications which are neither sold nor distributed;
nor displayed to the public.

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