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

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Department of Health and Family Welfare) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 26th March, 2018 G.S.R. 283(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) Amendment Rules, 2018. (2) They shall come into force on the 1 st day of April, 2018. 2. In the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, in rule 5, after the proviso below sub-rule (3), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:- “(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rules (1) to (3), if the specified health warnings provided in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Schedule are not amended by the Central Government with new specified health warnings at the end of the rotation period for the next rotation period, then the existing specified health warnings for the second twelve months shall continue for a further period till the 31 st day of August, 2018.” [No. P.16011/02/2017-TC] 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. 1016(E), dated the 16 th August, 2017. and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. SARVESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA