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A280 HONG KONG

Rh An Ordinance to prohibit smoking in certain areas, to provide for the display of a health warning and other information on cigarette packets and in cigarette advertisements and for matters incidental thereto including the amendment of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance. [] Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof. PART I

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance 1982 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette; and different days may be so appointed for different provisions of this Ordinance and for different purposes of the same provision.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—

“advertisement” means any announcement to the public made or to be made in any manner;

“brand”, except in section 14(3), includes a brand product, that is to say a variety of a brand marketed as having qualities differing from another variety of that brand;

“cigarette” means tobacco rolled up in paper or in any other material except tobacco, in such form as to be capable of immediate use for smoking;

“cigarette advertisement” has the meaning assigned to it by section 14;

“cigarette tobacco” means tobacco packaged as being suitable for the making by the purchaser of cigarettes for his own use;

“class” in relation to a class of seats means a class defined by reference to their price, all seats sold at the same price on the same occasion to the same category of persons being deemed to belong to the same class;

“ferry vessel” means a vessel operated on a ferry service as defined for the purposes of the Ferry Services Ordinance 1982 and having seating accommodation for 50 or more passengers;

“land vehicle” means a vehicle other than a train used on land for the transport of members of the public for hire or reward;