Notification regarding new specified health warning on Tabocco product packs for 2 years 2024

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-03122024-259125 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 682] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2024/AGRAHAYANA 12, 1946 7822 GI/2024 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (Department of Health and Family Welfare) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 2nd December, 2024 G.S.R. 742(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 7, section 8, sub-section (2) of section 9, section 10 and section 31 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, namely: - 1. (1) These rules may be called the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2024. (2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the official gazette. 2. In the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 5, after sub-rule (3), the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:- "(3A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rules (1), (2) and (3), the specified health warnings for the second twelve months shall remain in force till the specified health warnings provided in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Schedule are not amended. “ 3. In the said rules, in the Schedule, with effect from the 1st day of June, 2025,- (i) in paragraph (1), for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: - "(i) Textual Health Warning. For smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco products, the words 'TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH' shall appear in white font colour on a red background. The words and figures 'QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356' shall appear in white font colour on a black background. The intensity of color in the background of the textual health warning shall be: White: C:0%, M:0%, Y:0% K:0%, Red: C:0%, M:100%, Y:100% K: 0% and Black: C:0%, M:0%, Y:0% K: 100%. The textual health warnings shall be printed with four colours with printing resolution of minimum 300 DPI (Dots per inch). The font type and colour of the health warning shall be exactly as uploaded on the website www.mohfw.gov.in or https://ntcp.mohfw.gov.in/" (ii) For paragraph 2, the following paragraph shall be substituted, namely: - "2. The specified health warnings shall be- (a) Image-1 which shall be valid for a period of twelve months following its commencement. Image- 1 TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356 (b) Image-2 which shall come into effect following the end of twelve months from the date of commencement of specified health warning of Image-1. Image- 2 TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356 Note. -The soft or printable version of the specified health warnings are available on the websites www.mohfw.nic.in and https://ntcp.mohfw.gov.in/ [F. No. P.16012/03/2020-TC] NIKHIL GAJRAJ, Jt. Secy. Note.- The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 182 (E), dated the 15th March, 2008 and lastly amended vide notification number G.S.R. 592 (E), dated the 21st July, 2022. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054. SARVESH KUMAR Digitally signed by SARVESH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA SRIVASTAVA