The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 1991

Additional warnings for cigarettes

4.  –

(1) A producer of cigarettes shall ensure that each packet of cigarettes which he produces carries on the back face a warning from the list in Schedule 1.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a producer of a brand of cigarettes shall ensure that each of the warnings listed in Schedule 1 appears on an equal number of packets of that brand of cigarettes which he produces over any period of 12 months.

(3) A producer of cigarettes is to be regarded as complying with the requirements of paragraph (2) in relation to a brand of cigarettes if the number of packets of that brand on which each warning appears is no fewer than 95 per cent. of, and no greater than 105 per cent. of, one sixth of the total number of packets of cigarettes of that brand produced by him over the period of 12 months.