Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 · Updated to 2 Feb 2024 · Part IV · Control of Sale
12. Prohibition of tobacco product, etc., as a gift or prize
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sell
“sell” or “sale” includes— (a) barter or exchanging of goods; (b) offering or attempting to sell; (c) causing or allowing to be sold; (d) exposing for sale; (e) receiving, sending, conveying, distributing, transmitting or delivering for sale or exchange or by sale or exchange or in pursuance of such sale or exchange; Control of Smoking Products For Public Health 9 (f) supplying any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product where a reward is to be received by the supplier for such supply either specifically or as part of a service contracted for sale; (g) having in possession any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product for sale or exchange; or (h) having in possession any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product knowing that the tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product may be sold, offered, displayed or exposed for sale, or disposed of, for any consideration, and this includes electronic sale;
any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product together with any coupon, reward, goods, offer or services as a gift or prize;
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any goods or services together with any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product as a gift or prize;
any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product together with any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product as a gift or prize; or
any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product which is packaged or labelled together or otherwise with any other goods or services.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction—
where the person is not a body corporate—
for the first offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both; and
for the second or subsequent offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding thirty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both; and
where the person is a body corporate—
for the first offence, be liable to a fine not less than twenty thousand ringgit and not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both;
and
for the second or subsequent offence, be liable to a fine not less than fifty thousand ringgit and not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.