SINGAPORE: SUMMARY OF LEGISLATION 1. Summary 2. Details of laws 1970 Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Places Act, 1970 1970 Prohibition of Advertisements Relating to Smoking Act, 1970 1973 Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Places (Amendment) Act, 1973 1973 Environmental Public Health (Food Handlers) Regulations 1973 1979+ Training and Health Education Dept of MOH public information campaigns 1980 National Health Campaign (highlighting tobacco) 1980 Consumer Protection (Warning Against Danger of Smoking) Regulations, 1980. Single health warnings on cigarette packets 1981/01 'Smoking and Disease' Seminar for secondary school teachers 1983-4 Superman Antismoking Campaign 1984/03 Workshops on 'Non-smoking in hospitals' for doctors/nurses 1986 All government offices smoke-free. 1986/12 Launch of National Smoking Control Campaign. Including annual Anti-Smoking Campaign Month (May) 1988/06 The Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Notification 1988. No S 171. Dated 15 June 1988. Smoking not permitted in hospitals, maternity homes, medical clinics, nursing homes, indoor areas of certain food establishments and indoor roller-skating rinks and roller discotheques. 1989/01 The Consumer Protection (Labelling of Tobacco Product Containers) Regulations 1989. No. S 9. Dated 11 Jan 1989. Reg 3: 4 rotating Health Warnings in English Reg 4: Tar and nicotine levels 1989/01 The Consumer Protection (Trades Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act. Chapter 53. The Consumer Protection (Labelling of Tobacco Product Containers) Regulations 1989. 4 specified health warnings boxed white area, not less than 20% total area of that surface (and other stipulations) Ref: Legislative Responses to Tobacco Use, WHO 1991. 1989: Prohibition of smoking in certain public places (Hospitals, clinics, restaurants, air conditioned places, incl. amusement centre, department store, supermarket, indoor sports arenas eg. sports stadia, bowling alley, billiard rooms, gymnasia and aerobic and fitness centres, etc) 1989/11 Act to amend the Smoking (Prohibition of Advertisements) Act 1989. Total ban on all advertising and sales promotion. Prohibition of sponsorship from tobacco companies (Clause allowing Minister of Health to allow) 1989: Tar ceiling 15mgs; nicotine ceiling 1.3 mgs 1990+ BAT sponsored annual Arts scholarship to Scotland, valued at S$120,000 1990/04 Inauguration of National Smoking Control Programme Committee (50 organisations) 1990/05 No-smoking month 1991/01: Incoming duty free cigarettes banned. 1991/03: Import duty on cig increased by $15 per kg to $100/kg. Import duty on tobacco and excise duty on cigs by $8 per kg and $10 respectively to S$ 50 per kg. Led to rise in purchase price of 20c more per 20 stick pack = cost S$3.50 1991/03 Ban on all vending machines. 1991 Alfred Dunhill golf tournament 1992/04 The Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Notification Amendment: Extension of no-smoking areas: Hairdressing saloons, barbers shops, banking halls, private buses, private hire buses, school buses & taxis Enforcement responsibility of management(S$1,000 fine). 1992/05 World No Tobacco Month Talks/exhibitions at: Central Manpower Base Ministry of Health Seminar for Medical Students Ministry of Health, Singapore, for CEO's of private workplaces Rotary Club of Singapore Singapore Cancer Society Professional Lecture SMOKE-FREE DAY YOUTH RALLY Singapore Cancer Society Public Lecture 1992/09: Ban on foreign magazine tobacco advertisements if Singapore circulation over 10,000 copies (later to be extended to 5,000) 1992/10 Philip Morris All American Concert in commemoration of the Discovering of America by Christopher Columbus 1992/11 Philip Morris Jazz Festival - 5 TV programmes, plus free trailer time. 1993/01 Philip Morris- Pavarotti dinner cum concert(co-sponsor) 1993/01 The Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act 1992 Ban on sales to <18 year olds (fine S$5000-10,000) Under-18s banned from smoking in public (fine S$50-100) Ban on cigarette vending machines Ban on sales of imitation tobacco products The power to licence tobacco retailers 1993 Amendment to Consumer (Product Labelling of Tobacco Product Containers) Regulations - 4 new rotating health warnings: Smoking - causes heart disease/cancer/can kill/harms your family - warnings required on 2 largest surfaces, 20% of surface, white box, black border, words in black 3 mm. 1993/04 The Smoking (Control of Advertisements and Sale of Tobacco) Act 1993. (No. 10 of 1993) Published in Government Gazette. II. Control of advertisements III. Control of Sale of Tobacco Products 1.(a) ban on free gifts with tobacco sales (b) ban on free tobacco with other goods (c) ban on tobacco with other goods 10. Ban on sales to <18 years 13. Ban on vending machines 14. Ban on chewing tobacco 15. Ban on confectionary, other food, toy that resembles a tobacco product 16. Health warnings 21. Minister of Health can give exemptions By 1993 2/3 SIA's flights smoke-free ------------------------------------------------------------ SINGAPORE SINGAPORE. The Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Notification 1988. No. S 171. Dated 15 June 1988. (Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, Subsidiary Legislation Supplement, 24 June 1988, No. 29, pp. 444-446) Sing. 90.5 This Notification has been made by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment in Pursuance of Sec. 3 of the Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act (see IDHL, 1973, 24, 217). It lays down that smoking is not to be permitted in the following places: hospitals, maternity homes, medical clinics, and nursing homes (in each case as defined); indoor areas of certain food establishments (as specified); and indoor roller-skating rinks and roller discotheques. Source: Legislative Responses to Tobacco Use. World Health Organization. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Dordrecht/Boston/London. 1991:185-188. ------------------------------------------------------------ SINGAPORE. The Consumer Protection (Labelling of Tobacco Product Containers) Regulations 1989. No. S 9. Dated 11 January 1989. (Republic of Singapore Government Gazette, Subsidiary Legislation Supplement, 13 January 1989, No. 2, pp. 10-12) Sing. 90-10 These Regulations have been made by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry under powers conferred by Secs. 11 and 32 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act, and repeal the Consumer Protection (Warning Against Danger of Smoking) Regulations 1980 (see IDHL, 1981, 32, 460, Sing. 81.16). Reg. 3 lays down, among other provisions, that any one of the following warnings (in English) is to be clearly and conspicuously printed or otherwise marked in a prominent position on every container of tobacco products sold or offered for sale in Singapore: (a) Health Warning - Smoking causes heart disease; (b) Health Warning - Smoking causes cancer; (c) Health Warning Smoking damages your lungs; or (d) Health Warning - Smoking harms those around us. Each of these warnings is to be displayed with equal frequency on the container of each type of any brand of tobacco products in a 12-month period. Reg. 4 lays down that, in the case of cigarettes, "there shall also be printed or otherwise marked on each container of cigarettes the nicotine level expressed in tenths of a milligram per cigarette and the tar content expressed in milligrams per cigarette". Reg. 5 deals with the furnishing of statements, etc., in respect of tobacco products, to the Director. Source: Legislative Responses to Tobacco Use. World Health Organization. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Dordrecht/Boston/London. 1991:185-188. ------------------------------------------------------------ SINGAPORE. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION SUPPLEMENT. Friday, January 13,1989 THE CONSUMER PROTECTION (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS) ACT (CHAPTER 53). THE CONSUMER PROTECTION LABELLING OF TOBACCO PRODUCT CONTAINERS) REGULATIONS 1989. In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11 and 32 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act, the Minister for Trade and Industry,hereby makes the following Regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Consumer Protection (Labelling of Tobacco Product Containers) Regulations 1989 and shall come into operation on 2nd October 1989. 2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires - "tobacco products" means - (a)cigarettes; (b)cigars; and (c)any product manufactured wholly or partly from tobacco and which is capable of being smoked; "container" includes a box, tin or packet but does not include any outer wrapper or cellophane or other.transparent material; warning" means any of the warnings specified in regulation 3 (1). 3.-(1) There shall be clearly and conspicuously printed or otherwise marked in a prominent position on every container of tobacco products sold or offered for sale in Singapore any one of the following warnings in the English language, namely: (a) Health Warning - Smoking causes heart disease; (b) Health Warning - Smoking causes cancer; (c) Health Warning - Smoking damages your lungs; (d) Health Warning - Smoking harms those around us. (2) Each of the warnings specified in paragraph (1) shall be displayed with equal frequency on the container of each type of any brand of tobacco products in a 12 month period. (3) Where the container is a packet, each warning shall be displayed on the largest external surface of the packet and where the container is not a packet, the warning shall be displayed on the largest external surface of the container. (4) No warning specified in paragraph (1) may be displayed on the underside of the container of tobacco products. (5) The warning shall be enclosed in a boxed area which shall be white in colour and shall not be less than 20% of the total area of the surface of the container on which the warning is displayed. (6) The warning shall be in block letters of not less than 3 mm in height and shall be printed or otherwise marked in black. (7) Nothing else may appear in the boxed area of a container other than any of the warnings referred to in paragraph (1). (8) If the warning appears on a label, the label shall be securely affixed to the container. (9) Where the warning is printed on a label, the label shall not be affixed to the container of tobacco products in such a manner that the label may be damaged when the container is opened. 4.-(1) In the case of cigarettes, there shall also be printed or otherwise marked on each container of cigarettes the nicotine level expressed in tenths of a milligram per cigarette and the tar content expressed in milligrams per cigarette. (2) The nicotine and tar content of the cigarettes shown on each container of cigarettes shall be in block letters of not less than 8 points in a colour most conspicuous against the colour of the background of the container. (3) The nicotine and tar content of the cigarettes in each container of cigarettes shall not be printed or otherwise marked on the same side of the packet which displays any of the warnings specified in rule 3 (1). 5.-(1) Every manufacturer, importer and distributor of tobacco products shall- (a) annually cause to be sent to the Director a statement stating the amount of tobacco products manufactured in, imported into or distributed by him or it in Singapore; and (b) keep or cause to be kept records showing the batch numbers of the warning labels used in respect of every batch of tobacco products manufactured in, imported into or sold by him or it in Singapore. (2) The records referred to in paragraph (1) shall be kept at the registered office of the manufacturer, importer or distributor, as the case may be, and shall at all times be open to inspection by the Director. 6. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of regulation 3, 4, or 5 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both. 7. The Consumer Protection (Warning Against Danger of Smoking) Regulations 1980 are revoked. Made this 4th day of January 1989. LAM CHUAN LEONG, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore. Source: Legislative Responses to Tobacco Use. World Health Organization. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Dordrecht/Boston/London. 1991:185-188. ------------------------------------------------------------