Terms of Reference

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The Senate has referred the following matters to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 4 August 2004.

(a) the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Preventing Smoking Related Deaths) Bill 2004;

(b) the exposure draft of the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition (Film, Internet and Misleading Promotion) Amendment Bill 2004; and

(c) the adequacy of the response to date of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to the orders of the Senate of 24 September 2001, 27 June 2002 and 12 November 2002, which require the ACCC to report to the Senate on various issues concerning tobacco.

The purpose of the Bills is to deny election funding to candidates accepting gifts derived from tobacco smoking; to prohibit the advertising and offering for sale of tobacco products on the internet and to prohibit tobacco product placement in films.

Written submissions are invited and should be addressed to:

The Secretary
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee
Suite S1 59
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Closing date for the receipt of submissions is 11 June 2004.

The Committee prefers to receive submissions electronically as an attached document - email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au

Submissions become Committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the Committee. Persons making submissions must not release them without the approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.

Following consideration of submissions, the Committee will hold public hearings. The Committee will consider all submissions and may invite individuals and organisations to give evidence at the public hearings.

Information relating to Senate Committee inquiries, including notes to assist in the preparation of submissions for a Committee, can be located on the internet at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm

For further details contact the Committee Secretary, Phone: (02) 6277 3515, Fax: (02) 6277 5829.

E-mail: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au