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The Meghalaya Prohibition of Smoking and Non-smokers health Protection Act, 1998

The Meghalaya Prohibition of Smoking and Non-smokers health Protection Act, 1998

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This Act regulates public tobacco consumption within the Indian state of Meghalaya. It bans smoking in public transport and shared spaces like offices, restaurants, and hospitals, while prohibiting tobacco advertisements, sales to minors under eighteen, and tobacco storage or sales within one hundred meters of educational institutions. The law applies to everyone in the state, including residents, visitors, tobacco vendors, and business operators. This legislation matters because it protects the general public from the dangerous health hazards of secondhand smoke, discourages youth tobacco use, and improves public health through enforcement measures like warning signs, fines, and ejection.

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  1. 1. Short title and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Declaration of non-smoking places of public work or use
  4. 4. Power of Government to authorise officers to Act under this Act.
  5. 5. Prohibition of smoking in places of public worker use
  6. 6. Prohibition of smoking in public services vehicles
  7. 7. Prohibition on advertisement of cigarettes etc.
  8. 8. Prohibition of cigarettes, etc to minors.
  9. 9. Prohibition storage, sale and distribution of cigarettes, etc in the vicinity of educational Institutions.
  10. 10. Display and Exhibition of Board
  11. 11. Penalties
  12. 12. Ejection or viola tore of his Act from the place of public work or use.
  13. 13. Court competent to try offences under this Act and take cognizance of offences
  14. 14. Certain offences to be cognizable and bailable
  15. 15. Offences under the Act, to be tried summarily.
  16. 16. Power to delegate
  17. 17. Composition of offences
  18. 18. Power to make rules
  19. 19. Repeal

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