TOBACCO PRODUCTS & ELECTRONIC DELIVERY SYSTEMS CONTROL BILL: PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS BEGINS

TOBACCO PRODUCTS & ELECTRONIC DELIVERY SYSTEMS CONTROL BILL: PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS BEGINS

• 21 June 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

In anticipation of public hearings, the National Assembly’s Health Committee has called for written submissions by 4 August 2023 on the Tobacco Products & Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill.

Tabled in December 2022, according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects it seeks to:

• strengthen public health protection measures
• align South African tobacco control legislation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and to that end:
• empower the authorities to make indoor public places and certain outdoor areas 100% smoke-free
• ban the sale of cigarettes through vending machines
• ban point-of-sale cigarette and electronic delivery system display
• make plain packaging with graphic health warnings and pictorials mandatory, and
• regulate electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems.

Once operationalised, the proposed new piece of legislation will repeal the Tobacco Control Act, 1993.

• Bill
• committee notice
• WHO Framework Convention

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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