Cigarettes Packaging Rules

Ministry of Health Family Welfare (Department of Health and Family Welfare)

Notification dated 3rd May, 2009

G.S.R.305(E).—In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 7, sub-section 2 of section 8, section 10 and section 31 of the" Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and,Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003) the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments to the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, namely:-

1. (1) These Rules, may be called the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2009.

(2) They shall come into force on 31st May 2009.

2. In the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008

(1) In rule 2, for clause (b) the following clause shall be-substituted, namely:-

"package" means any type of pack in which cigarette and other tobacco product is packaged for consumer sale but shall not include wholesale, semi wholesale or poora packages if such packages are not intended for consumer use.''

(2) In rule 3, in sub rule (1), for clause (b) the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-

(b) "the specified health warnings shall occupy at least forty percent (40%) of the principal display area of the front panel of the pack and shall be positioned parallel to the top edge of the package and in the same direction as the information on the principal display area:.

Provided that for conical packs, the widest end of the pack shall be considered as the top edge of the pack:"

[No. 16011/07/2005-PH]

B.K.PRASAD, Jt.Secy.

Note: Principal rules were published vide GSR No. 182(E) dated 15th March, 2008 and subsequently amended vide GSR No. 693(E) dated 29-9-08 and Vide S.O 2814 (E) dated 28-11-08.