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Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996  030
XIII: Transitional Provisions
193   Control of advertisements




   193. Control of advertisements---(1) No person, being the seller of
 any toxic substance, or being the agent or employee of the seller, shall
 publish or cause or permit to be published any advertisement relating
 to, or calculated or likely to cause any other person to believe that it
 relates to, a toxic substance, if the advertisement---
   (a) Fails to make any statement required by the Toxic Substances
         Regulations 1983 to be made in any advertisement in respect of
         that substance; or
   (b) Makes any statement prohibited by those regulations; or
   (c) Directly or by implication qualifies, or is contrary to, any
         statement or other particulars required by those regulations to
         be included in any advertisement or to be included in any label
         borne on the substance; or
   (d) Directly or by implication states or suggests that the substance
         is not poisonous or is harmless; or
   (e) Is of a size that contravenes or does not comply with the
         requirements of those regulations; or
   (f) Includes any lettering that is of a size that contravenes or does
         not comply with the requirements of those regulations; or
   (g) Is published in a medium that is prohibited in respect of such
         advertisements by those regulations.

   (2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, regulations 7 to 14 of
 the Toxic Substances Regulations 1983 shall apply, with all necessary
 modifications, to the control of advertisements under this section.
     Cf. 1979, No. 27, s. 34
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