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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 10 Hansard (12 October) . . Page.. 3006 ..
Amendment ( (continuing):
(a) brand;
(b) flavour (including menthol flavour);
(c) nicotine or tar content;
(d) the number of items in the immediate package in which it is sold;
(e) in the case of cigars-by the fact that the cigars of the type in question are sold individually (whether or not cigars of the same type are also sold, packaged in multiples, in a different product line);
'wholesale outlet' means premises where tobacco products are available for sale exclusively by wholesale.".
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (5.04): I move the following amendment to the Government's amendment:
Paragraph (b), proposed new definition of "product line", omit from the definition "1 or more", substitute "2 or more".
Just before speaking to this amendment, Mr Speaker, I acknowledge my agreement with much of what the Minister said. The Labor Party is supportive of this legislation. I am supportive of much of what the Minister said in relation to this Assembly's attitude to the use and misuse of tobacco and tobacco products and the need for communities everywhere to remain vigilant and to incrementally advance programs aimed at reducing the use of tobacco and tobacco products, particularly by younger people but certainly by everybody who does use the substance.
I think members may be aware that in its first draft of the Tobacco (Amendment) Bill the Government proposed a different scheme for limiting the extent of display that a tobacco retailer or a seller of tobacco products could provide at the place of sale. That proposal restricted the area of display of tobacco products to a square metre. The proposal we are now debating provides a different formula. It provides a formula that allows for display of the full range of a product line. My amendment to the Government's proposal restricts the display of the product somewhat. The definition of "product line" which the Minister proposes and which I seek to amend reads:
'product line' means a kind of tobacco product distinguishable from other kinds by 1 or more of the following characteristics:
(a) brand;
(b) flavour ... ;
(c) nicotine or tar content;
(d) the number of items in the immediate package in which it is sold;
(e) in the case of cigars ...
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