Section 3. Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--

(a) advertisement includes any visible representation by way of notice, circular, label, wrapper or other document and also includes any announcement made orally or by any means of producing or transmitting light, sound, smoke or gas;

(b) cigarette includes,--

(i) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any other substance not containing tobacco,

(ii) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any substance containing tobacco, which, by reason of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the filter, or its packaging and labelling is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as cigarette, but does not include beedi, cheroot and cigar;

(c) distribution includes distribution by way of samples, whether free or otherwise;

(d) export, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means taking out of India to a place outside India;

(e) foreign language means a language which is neither an Indian language nor the English language;

(f) import, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means bringing into India from a place outside India;

(g) Indian language means a language specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution, and includes any dialect of such language;

(h) label means any written, marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter, affixed to, or appearing upon, any package;

(i) package includes a wrapper, box, carton, tin or other container;

(j) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(k) production, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the making of cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, beedis, cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, chewing tobacco, pan masala or any chewing material having tobacco as one of its ingredients (by whatever name called) or snuff and shall include--

(i) packing, labelling or re-labelling, of containers;

(ii) re-packing from bulk packages to retail packages; and

(iii) the adoption of any other method to render the tobacco product marketable;

(l) public place means any place to which the public have access, whether as of right or not, and includes auditorium, hospital buildings, railway waiting room, amusement centres, restaurants, public offices, court buildings, educational institutions, libraries, public conveyances and the like which are visited by general public but does not include any open space;

(m) sale, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means any transfer of property in goods by one person to another, whether for cash or on credit, or by way of exchange, and whether wholesale or retail, and includes an agreement for sale, and offer for sale and exposure for sale;

(n) smoking, means smoking of tobacco in any form whether in the form of cigarette, cigar, beedis or otherwise with the aid of a pipe, wrapper or any other instruments;

(o) specified warning means such warnings against the use of cigarettes or other tobacco products to be printed, painted or inscribed on packages of cigarettes or other tobacco products in such form and manner as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(p) tobacco products means the products specified in the Schedule.

STATE AMENDMENT

Maharashtra

Amendment of section 3 of Act 34 of 2003.--In section 3 of the Cigarettes and Other Tabacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), after clause (e), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--

(ee) hookah bar means an establishment where people gather to smoke tobacco from a community hookah or narghile which is provided individually;

[Vide Maharashtra Act 60 of 2018, s. 2.]

Gujarat

Amendment of section 3 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 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 3, after clause (e), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--

(ee) hookah bar means an establishment where people gather to smoke tobacco from a communal hookah or narghile which is provided individually;.

[Vide Gujarat Act 27 of 2017, s. 2.]

Rajasthan

Amendment of section 3, Central Act No. 34 of 2003.-In section 3 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (Central Act No. 34 of 2003), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, after the existing clause (e) and before the existing clause (f), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-

“(ee) “hookah bar” means an establishment where people gather to smoke tobacco from a communal hookah or narghile which is provided individually;”.

[Vide Rajasthan Act 1 of 2020, s. 2.]