House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2021-06-10 Daily Xml

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E-Cigarettes

459 Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (5 May 2021). For warnings issued to e-cigarette or vaping licence holders, premises or retailers under the Tobacco and E-Cigarette Products Act 1997 since 31 March 2019, what is the breakdown of warnings by each individual offence under the act?

The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education): The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:

As of 7 May 2021, the breakdown of the 18 warnings issued by SA Health authorised officers under the Tobacco and E-Cigarette Act 1997 to dedicated e-cigarette/vape stores during the period in question is as follows:

12 x section 40(1)—A person must not advertise tobacco products or e-cigarette products in the course of a business or for any direct or indirect pecuniary benefit.

3 x section 6(ab)—A person must not carry on the business of selling e-cigarette products by retail unless the person holds a licence under this part.

1 x section 30(2)—A person must not sell an e-cigarette product if the order for the e-cigarette product has been placed by mail, telephone, fax, email, internet or other electronic means.

2 x section 46(3)—If smoking occurs in an enclosed public place in contravention of subsection (1) [Smoking is banned in an enclosed public place, workplace or shared area], the occupier of the place is guilty of an offence.