Public Health (Infringement Notices) Regulations 1998
I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Public Health Act 1997 .
19 June 1998G. S. M. GREEN
Governor
By His Excellency's Command,
PETER McKAY
Minister for Community and Health Services
These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Infringement Notices) Regulations 1998 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
(1) The offences generally described in Column 2 of Schedule 1 under the respective sections specified in Column 1 of that Schedule are prescribed as the offences under the Public Health Act 1997 in respect of which infringement notices may be issued.(2) The penalties specified in Column 3 of Schedule 1 are prescribed as the penalties payable in respect of prescribed offences to which the respective infringement notices relate.
SCHEDULE 1 - Offences under Public Health Act 1997[Schedule 1 Substituted by S.R. 2001, No. 17, Applied:07 Mar 2001]
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Section | General description of offence | Penalty units | 36(3) | Failing to comply with requirement of council or authorised officer | 1 | 41(2) | Failing to comply with requirement to undergo medical examination | 1 | 52(3) | Failing to comply with direction relating to an investigation | 2 | 53(3) | Failing to comply with order relating to prevention of spread of disease | 1 | 64(4) | Failing to display notice where tobacco product is sold | 1 | 64(6) | Failing to provide employees information about sale and supply of tobacco products to children | 1 | 65(5) | Failing to comply with code of practice relating to vending machines | 2 | 70(1) | Displaying tobacco advertisement in public place | 2 | 70(3)(a) | Displaying more than one packet of each product line of a tobacco product at any premises | 2 | 70(3)(b) | Displaying tobacco product within 75cm of confectionery unless exempted | 2 | 71 | Failing to ensure that tobacco vending machine displays required wording | 1 | 72A(1) | Displaying tobacco products within 75cm of a product designed or marketed for the use of a child | 2 | 72A(2) | Displaying packets of tobacco product unless in sales unit | 2 | 72A(3) | Failing to ensure sales units comply with requirements | 2 | 72A(4) | Failing to ensure sales unit area does not exceed 4 square metres | 2 | 72A(5) | Displaying tobacco products in more than one sales unit per premises | 2 | 72A(7) | Enhancement of display of tobacco products | 2 | 72A(8) | Displaying cigarette cartons or shippers | 2 | 73 | Failing to ensure tobacco products are packaged or labelled in accordance with guidelines | 1 | 74A | Selling tobacco products without a licence or not on behalf of licence holder | 2 | 74I | Failing to sell tobacco products in accordance with licence conditions, guidelines, regulations and Act | 2 | 74L(1) | Selling tobacco products from premises not specified in the tobacco seller’s licence | 1 | 74L(2) | Failing to display tobacco seller’s licence in certain circumstances | 1 | 75 | Operating etc. place of assembly without licence | 2 | 79 | Operating etc, place of assembly otherwise than in required manner | 1 | 84(1) | Allowing overcrowding of place of assembly | 2 | 87(7) | Requiring occupier to comply with closure order or pay cost of work | 2 | 90 | Letting, occupying or inhabiting premises in contravention of closure order | 2 | 92(3) | Failing to comply with rectification notice | 1 | 95(2) | Failing to register premises where public health risk activity is carried out | 2 | 99 | Operating registered premises otherwise than in required manner | 1 | 104(2) | Failing to comply with requirement to obtain licence to carry out public health risk activity | 2 | 109 | Carrying out public health risk activity otherwise than in required manner | 1 | 113(1) | Operating unregistered regulated system | 2 | 117(1) | Operating and maintaining regulated system otherwise than in required manner | 2 | 117(3) | Failing to operate or maintain regulated system as required | 2 | 118(3) | Failing to comply with direction relating to regulated system | 2 | 119(2) | Failing to comply with notice relating to regulated system | 2 | 127 | Failing to comply with guidelines relating to safeguards for public use of premises | 1 | 133(1) | Failing to register private water source for public use | 1 | 148(2) | Failing to comply with requirement to provide information relating to public health | 2 | 149 | Failing to record, collect, transmit or store information as required | 2 | 150(2) | Failing to comply with requirement relating to any article or substance posing threat to public health | 2 | 151(2) | Failing to remove or destroy any article, goods or substances as required | 2 | 184(5) | Failing to comply with guidelines | 1 | 186 | Failing to provide assistance where required | 1 |
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 24 June 1998
These regulations are administered in the Department of Community and Health Services.