Bill C-42
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1st Session, 36th Parliament, 46-47 Elizabeth II, 1997-98
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-42 |
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An Act to amend the Tobacco Act
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| 1997, c. 13
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1. (1) Section 24 of the Tobacco Act is
replaced by the following:
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| Prohibition -
sponsorship
promotion
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24. No person may display a tobacco
product-related brand element or the name of
a tobacco manufacturer in a promotion that is
used, directly or indirectly, in the sponsorship
of a person, entity, event, activity or
permanent facility.
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(2) Subsection (1) comes into force 60
months after the day prescribed under
section 5.
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2. (1) Section 25 of the Act is replaced by
the following:
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| Prohibition -
name of
facility
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25. No person may display a tobacco
product-related brand element or the name of
a tobacco manufacturer on a permanent
facility, as part of the name of the facility or
otherwise, if the tobacco product-related
brand element or name is thereby associated
with a sports or cultural event or activity.
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(2) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come
into force on the day on which this Act is
introduced in Parliament.
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(3) Section 25, as it read immediately
before the coming into force of subsection
(1), continues to apply until 60 months after
the day prescribed under section 5 in
relation to the display, on a permanent
facility, of a tobacco product-related brand
element that appeared on the facility on the
day on which this Act was introduced in
Parliament.
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3. (1) Paragraphs 33(c) and (d) of the Act
are repealed.
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(2) Subsection (1) comes into force 60
months after the day prescribed under
section 5.
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4. (1) Section 66 of the Act is renumbered
as subsection 66(1) and is amended by
adding the following:
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| Application
delayed -
sponsorship
before April
25, 1997
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(2) Subsections 24(2) and (3) do not apply
until 24 months after the prescribed day in
relation to the display of a tobacco
product-related brand element in
promotional material that is used in the
sponsorship of a person, entity, event or
activity if the tobacco product-related
brand element has been displayed before
April 25, 1997 in promotional material that
is used in the sponsorship of the person,
entity, event or activity, as the case may be.
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| Application
further
delayed on
site where
sponsorship
before April
25, 1997
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(3) Subject to subsection (4), if a tobacco
product-related brand element has been
displayed before April 25, 1997 in
promotional material that was used in the
sponsorship of a person or entity, or of an
event or activity that has been held before
that date, subsections 24(2) and (3) do not
apply before 60 months after the prescribed
day in relation to the display of the tobacco
product-related brand element in
promotional material that is used, in the
sponsorship of the person, entity, event or
activity, on the site of
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for the duration of the event or activity or
for any other period that may be prescribed
by regulation.
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| Promotional
material
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(4) Subsections 24(2) and (3) apply after
24 months after the prescribed day and
before 60 months after that day to prohibit
the furnishing to the public, on the site of an
event or activity referred to in subsection
(3), of promotional material that displays a
tobacco product-related brand element
otherwise than in conformity with
subsection 24(2).
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| Meaning of
``prescribed
day''
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(5) In this section, ``prescribed day''
means the day prescribed under section 5 of
An Act to amend the Tobacco Act, assented
to in the first session of the thirty-sixth
Parliament.
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(2) Subsection 66(2) of the Tobacco Act, as
enacted by subsection (1), comes into force
or is deemed to have come into force on
October 1, 1998.
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(3) Subsections 66(3) and (4) of the
Tobacco Act, as enacted by subsection (1),
come into force 24 months after the day
prescribed under section 5.
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| Day to be
prescribed
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5. The Governor in Council may, by
regulation, prescribe a day for the purposes
of subsections 1(2), 2(3), 3(2) and 4(3).
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