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AN ACT to improve public health and prevent incidence of cancer and other health hazards and addictions among the people of the State and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. (1) Whereas it is considered expedient to enact a comprehensive law on smokeless and chewing tobacco and/or nicotine in the public interest and to protect public health; And whereas it is expedient to prohibit manufacturing, advertisement, trade, storage, distribution, sale and consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Panmasala containing tobacco and/or nicotine and various types -of smokeless and chewing tobacco and/or nicotine or any of its derivatives in any form, which are injurious to health with a view to achieve improvement of public health in general as enjoined by Article 4 7 of the Constitution, and to make any violation of such prohibition a penal offence, which is cognizable and non-bailable; It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic as follows :- This Act may be called the Assam Health (Prohibition of Manufacturing, Trade, Advertisement, Storage, Distribution, Sale And Consumption of Zarda, Gutkha, Panmasala etc. Containing Tobacco and/or nicotine) Act, 2013. (2) It extends to the whole of Assam. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. In this Act, unless the context otherwise required,- ( a) "advertisement" means and includes any visible representation by way of notice, circular, label, pamphlet, display on hoardings, balloons, wrapper or other documents and also includes any announcements made orally or by any means of light, sound, smoke, gas which has the effect of promoting use and consumption of chewing and smokeless tobacco products; (b) "authorized officer" means any person authorized under section 3; Power of Government to authorize Officers Prohibition of certain acts under the Act THE AS A .. \f GAZETTE, EXTRAORDr\ARY, FEBR ARY 11, 2014 97