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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 8 Hansard (29 August) . . Page.. 2600 ..
MR STANHOPE (continuing):
some amendments to address this criticism. The Labor Party has no objection to the bill, and we are happy to support it.
MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (6.29), in reply: Mr Rugendyke raised with me publicly the smoking of products other than tobacco. The amendments I have circulated address the issues raised in the scrutiny of bills committee. The government's amendments also provide for a daily penalty for retail tobacco merchants who refuse to remove prohibited tobacco advertising in accordance with a notice issued by an authorised officer. Those amendments are entirely appropriate.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (6.30): I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum and move:
No 1-
Clause 2, page 2, line 1, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:
"2 Commencement
(1) This Act (other than sections 9 and 10) commences on the day this Act is notified in the Gazette.
(2) Sections 9 and 10 commence immediately after the commencement of section 13 of the Tobacco (Amendment) Act 1999.
Note Section 13 of the Tobacco (Amendment) Act 1999 commences on 11 November 2000 (see s 2 (4) of that Act and the Interpretation Act 1967, s 10E).".
In speaking to the bill at the in-principle stage, I think I covered the issue we are talking about here.
MR RUGENDYKE (6.31): I thank Mr Moore for considering the matter that I brought to his attention as health minister. It is an indication of how well we are able to work together on many issues. It is appropriate that this amendment has come forth to put herbal cigarettes and look-alike cigarettes in the same category as tobacco products, thereby sending the right message to our young people that smoking is dangerous and injurious to health. I thank Mr Moore for considering my concerns in this way.
Amendment agreed to.
MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (6.32): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move amendments Nos 2 to 4 circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: I move:
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