Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations

Marginal note:Cigarette packages — edges

• 90 (1) Despite these Regulations, until the second anniversary of the day on which subsection 11(2) of An Act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Non-smokers’ Health Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, chapter 9 of the Statutes of Canada, 2018, comes into force, a primary package that contains cigarettes may have edges that are rounded and beveled and not rigid and straight.

• Marginal note:Retailers

  (2) Despite subsection (1), a retailer may continue to sell a primary package or a secondary package that contains cigarettes and whose edges are rounded and beveled and not rigid and straight until the day that, in the 27th month after the month in which subsection 11(2) of An Act to amend the Tobacco Act and the Non-smokers’ Health Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, chapter 9 of the Statutes of Canada, 2018, comes into force, has the same calendar number as the day on which that subsection comes into force or, if that 27th month has no day with that number, the last day of that 27th month.