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Exemptions
The Minister may by notice in the Gazette exempt any tobacco product from a provision of
this Act on such conditions as the Minister may determine in the notice, provided that it is in
the public interest for the particular tobacco product to be so exempted.
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Offences and penalties
(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 2 (2), (4) or (6), or fails to
comply with any condition contemplated in section 2 (1) (b), shall be guilty of an
offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R50 000.
(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 2 (5), 3 (8), (9) (a) or (b)
or (10), 4 (1), (2), (3), (4) (a) or (b) or (5) or 5, or contravenes or fails to comply with
any regulation made in terms of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on
conviction to a fine not exceeding R100 000.
(3) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 3 (1), (2), (3), (6), (7) (a)
or (b), 3A, or 4A shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding R1 000 000.
(4) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 2 (1) shall be guilty of an
offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding R500.
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Short title and commencement
(1) This Act shall be called the Tobacco Products Control Act, 1993, and shall come into
operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.
(2) Different dates may under subsection (1) be fixed in respect of different provisions of this
Act.