Section 9
Prohibition on promotion or sponsorship of tobacco product, etc.
of Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024
No person shall promote or sponsor, or participate in any arrangement that promotes any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product, which is intended or likely to encourage any person to smoke or to be promoted as a quit smoking product.
(2)
For the purposes of this section, “arrangement” includes any agreement, undertaking or understanding that has or likely to have the effects of promoting any tobacco product, smoking substance or substitute tobacco product—
(a)
by giving or accepting any sponsorship, gift, prize, reward, scholarship or other like benefit; or
(b)
by organising any campaign, course, workshop, forum, road show, consultation or event.
(3)
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall, on conviction—
(a)
where the person is not a body corporate—
(i)
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
(ii)
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
(b)
where the person is a body corporate—
(i)
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
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(ii)
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.