THE CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISEMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND COMMERCE, PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION) AMENDMENT BILL, 2007

Bill No. 62 of 2007

9th August, 2007

TO BE INTRODUCED IN LOK SABHA A BILL to amend the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

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S.1 Short title.

This Act may be called the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Act, 2007.

S.2 Amendment of section 7 of Act 34 of 2003.

In the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, in section 7, in sub-section (1), for the words "the specified warning including a pictorial depiction of skull and cross bones and such other warning as may be prescribed", the words "such specified warning including a pictorial warning as may be prescribed" shall be substituted.

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EXTRACT FROM, THE CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS (PROHIBITION OF ADVERTISEMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND COMMERCE, PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION) ACT, 2003 (34 OF 2003)

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7. (1) No person shall, directly or indirectly, produce, supply or distribute cigarettes or any other tobacco products unless every package of cigarettes or any other tobacco products produced, supplied or distributed by him bears thereon, or on its label, the specified warning including a pictorial depiction of skull and cross bones and such other warning as may be prescribed.

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