Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement.

The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003

Act 34 of 2003
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Department of Health and Family Welfare

About this Act

An Act to prohibit the advertisement of, and to provide for the regulation of trade and commerce in, and production, supply and distribution of, cigarettes and other tobacco products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

All sections

    (1) This Act may be called the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.
     (2) It extends to the whole of India.
     (3) It shall come into force on such date¹ as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.

Notes

¹. 1st December, 2007, sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of sec. 7, ss. 8, 9, 10 and 20, vide notification No. S.O. 1955(E), dated 16th November, 2007, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec 3(ii).