The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Second Amendment Rules, 2018

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Department of Health and Family Welfare) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 3rd April, 2018 G.S.R. 331(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 7, section 8, sub-section (2) of section 9, section 10 and section 31 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, namely:- 1. (1) These rules may be called the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Second Amendment Rules, 2018. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of September, 2018. 2. In the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008,- (a) in rule 5, - (i) for sub-rule (2), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:- “(2) During the rotation period, there shall be two images of specified health warning which shall appear consecutively on the package with an interregnum period of twelve months.”; (ii) in sub-rule (3), for proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:- “Provided that the date of coming into effect of the second image (image 2) of specified health warning, shall be for all tobacco products manufactured or imported after the completion of twelve months from the date of commencement of first image (image 1).”; (iii) sub-rule (4) shall be omitted. (b) in the Schedule,- (i) in paragraph 1, for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- ‘(i) Textual Health Warning.- For smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco products, the word “TOBACCO CAUSES CANCER” and the word “TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH” shall appear in white font colour on a red background and the words “QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356” shall appear in white font colour on a black background. The intensity of color in the background of the textual health warning shall be: White: C:0%, M:0%, Y:0% be printed with four colors with printing resolution of minimum 300 DPI (Dots per inch). The font type and colour of the health warning shall be exactly as uploaded on the web site www.mohfw.gov.in’; (ii) for paragraph 2, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely:- “2. The specified health warnings shall be- (a) Image-1, which shall be valid for a period of twelve months following its commencement. Image- 1 (b) Image-2, which shall come into effect following the end of twelve months from the date of commencement of specified health warning of Image-1. Image- 2 VIKAS SHEEL, Jt. Secy. Note. The Principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification number G.S.R. 182 (E), dated the 15 th March, 2008 and lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R. 283 (E), dated the 26th March, 2018. and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. RAKESH SUKUL