Proposals for the Smoked Tobacco Regulatory Regime

Each section of this online consultation describes the regulatory proposals and asks a number of questions that will help shape the development of final regulations. Some of the sections have appendices that provide additional information on that topic. 

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Regulatory proposal 1: Smoked tobacco retail scheme
This proposal is broken into four parts.

• 1a is about how stores that sell smoked tobacco products will be spread across the country,
• 1b focusses on the minimum criteria for selling smoked tobacco products,
• 1c is about the application process and how the Director-General will select retailers,
• additional retail questions.

Regulatory proposal 2: Low nicotine requirements
This section focusses on testing and product requirements, as well as product packaging.  

Regulatory proposal 3: Fees
This section is about fees for applications, registrations and product approvals. 

Regulatory proposal 4: Notification requirements
This section is about the process for distributors of smoked tobacco products and retailers of notifiable products to tell the Director-General about their business.

Regulatory proposal 5: Youth vaping
This section suggests making some changes to vaping product packaging, safety requirements and considers some proximity restrictions.