Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations

Marginal note:Overwrap — more than one primary package

25 If an overwrap covers more than one primary package, the following information and features may be displayed on it:

• (a) calibration marks that meet the requirements of section 19;

• (b) a bar code, if it is displayed only once on the overwrap, meets the requirements of subsection 16(1) and paragraph 16(2)(a) and is printed directly on the overwrap or on a label that meets the requirements of subsections 11(1), 13(1) and 14(1) that are applicable to interior and exterior surfaces;

• (c) a solid black rectangle to cover the bar code on each primary package;

• (d) the declaration of net quantity and the common name of the tobacco product, printed in white on a black rectangle, if they are oriented parallel to and in the same direction as any information that is displayed on the surface that the overwrap covers; and

• (e) a health warning and any other information that is required or authorized by or under the Act, any other Act of Parliament or any Act of the legislature of a province.