Vol. 414, No. 20687, 3 December 1999
Regulation Gazette, No.6689
No. R. 1450
GOVERNMENT NOTICE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
NOTICE RELATING TO THE MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE YIELD OF
TAR
NICOTINE AND OTHER CONSTITUENTS IN A TOBACCO PRODUCT
The Minister of Health intends, in terms of Section 3A of the Tobacco Products Control Act, 1993 (Act No. 83 of 1993), as amended by the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act (Act No. 12 of 1999), to hereby declare the maximum permissible yields of tar and nicotine which a tobacco product may contain and the maximum yield of any such substance that may be obtained from tobacco products, as set out in the Schedule.
Interested persons are invited to submit any substantiated comments or make any representations on the proposed regulations to the Director-General: Health, Private Bag X828, Pretoria, 0001 (for attention of the Director: Health Promotion), within three months of the date of this publication.
SCHEDULE
The tar yield of cigarettes marketed in the Republic of South Africa shall not be greater than15 mg per cigarette and the nicotine yield not be greater than1.5mg per cigarette as from 31 December 2000.
The tar yield of cigarettes marketed in the Republic of South Africa shall not be greater than 12 mg per cigarette and the nicotine yield not be greater than 1.2 mg per cigarette as from 31 December 2002.