This section provides information about the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 and how it regulates smoked tobacco products in New Zealand and what that means for retailers, manufacturers, importers and distributors of smoked tobacco products.
Latest updates
29 September 2023: Regulated Product Seller Notification 1 October 2023 deadline
We acknowledge that there is a short timeframe between the regulation coming into force on 21 September 2023 and the notification cut-off date of 1 October 2023. We have committed additional staff to processing the large number of registrations, but processing could take up to 5–10 days.
Given the situation, we will not take action against anyone who sells regulated products where the retailer has started the required registration and notification process.
28 September 2023
Thank you again for your patience as we’ve worked to resolve the technical issue with the HARP system. The issue has been resolved and the smoked tobacco premises application form is now available. In recognition of the delay we have extended the application deadline by one week to 11.59pm on 19 November 2023. A reminder that the system can be accessed here: New Submission - RegWorks Public Portal, and detailed guides on the process are available: Approved Smoked Tobacco Retailer Application Process.
20 September 2023
Make a complaint
If your complaint is about tobacco sales to under 18s or smoking in a workplace, then contact your local Public Health Service
If you have a complaint about a smoked tobacco product, then you can let the Tobacco Regulatory Authority (TRA) know through the complaints form in the HARP portal.