Tobacco vending machines
An overview of laws for the retailing of tobacco products through tobacco vending machines follows:
Machines only to be in liquor licensed premises at:
- bar areas (within 5 metres of the bar and use of the machine is able to be easily observed by staff behind the bar)
- gaming machine areas (within 1 metre of a gaming machine and able to be easily observed by staff)
- casinos
- Mandatory signs attached on or near the machine
- A picture of a single product line, including the health warning, is permitted on the machine
- Black and white price tickets are permitted on the machine
- Tobacco advertising on the machine is prohibited
- Children under 18 years must not use the machine
- Staff training about preventing child access to the machine, and being able to show written evidence of this training, is mandatory.
If you sell smoking products through vending machines, you must call the Tobacco Hotline 1800 005 998 and order a Selling Smoking Products information kit, which explains your obligations under the law in detail. There are also a number of signs that you are required, by law, to display, which the Tobacco Hotline can also supply.
For details on this new law go to the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998.
This page last updated:
July 2006
Review date: October 2006
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