The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015

Text which states the weight of tobaccoU.K.

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2.—(1) The external packaging of a unit packet or container packet of hand rolling tobacco may have text printed on it—

(a)which states the weight of tobacco in grams contained in the packet, and

(b)which may be followed by the word “Rolling Tobacco” or “Hand Rolling Tobacco”,

but only if each of the following conditions is met.

(2) Those conditions are—

(a)that the weight of tobacco is expressed in numeric characters followed by the letter “g”,

(b)in the case of a container packet of an aggregation of unit packets, that the weight so expressed is either—

(i)the total weight of tobacco in the container packet, or

(ii)the number of unit packets in the container packet multiplied by the weight of tobacco in each unit packet, with the multiplication symbol being expressed as an “x”,

(c)that the first letter of any word is in upper-case type or lower-case type,

(d)that the rest of any word is in lower-case type,

(e)that the text is printed in Helvetica type,

(f)that the colour of the text is Pantone Cool Gray 2 C with a matt finish,

(g)that the text is in a normal, weighted, regular typeface,

(h)in the case of a unit packet, that the size of the text is no larger than 10 point,

(i)in the case of a container packet, that the size of the text is no larger than 14 point,

(j)that the text appears only once, and

(k)that the text on any surface which contains a health warning is orientated in accordance with the warning.