BILL NO. 159

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
57 Elizabeth II, 2008

Private Member's Bill

Tobacco Access Act
(amended)

Joan Massey
Dartmouth East

First Reading: May 7, 2008

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill prohibits the sale of cigarillos that include flavouring agents other than a few listed exceptions.

1 Section 3 of Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1993, the Tobacco Access Act, as amended by Chapter 12 of the Acts of 1999, is further amended by relettering clause (a) as clause (ab) and adding immediately after that clause the following clauses:

(a) "cigar" means tobacco in the form of a roll or tubular construction intended for smoking that consists of a filler of pieces of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco, a binder of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco in which the filler is wrapped and a wrapper of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco;

(aa) "cigarillo" means a cigar that may or may not have a binder and that is 120 millimetres or less in length;

(a) striking out "or" at the end of clause (a);

(b) striking out the period at the end of clause (b) and substituting "; or"; and

(c) adding immediately after clause (b) the following clause:

(c) cigarillos that include flavouring agents except those flavouring agents listed in the Schedule to this Act.

(ab) amending the Schedule to this Act;

4 Chapter 14 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 14 the following Schedule:

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