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Tobacco Industry: Legislation Programme Summer 2016

 

Bill

Purpose

Status

Public Health (Sale of Tobacco Products and Non-Medicinal Nicotine Delivery Systems) Bill

To provide for the introduction of a licensing system for the sale of tobacco products and a licensing system for the sale of non-medicinal nicotine delivery systems (NMNDS), to prohibit the sale of tobacco products from temporary or mobile units/containers, at events/locations primarily intended for persons under 18 years of age and by persons under 18 years of age and to prohibit the sale of NMNDS by persons under 18 years of age and to persons under 18 years of age.

Heads of bill are currently being drafted

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016

 

To amend the Irish Medicines Board Act 1995, the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009, the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 and the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Act 2015.

Order for Second Stage (Dáil)