Cap 109 s 65 Definition of tobacco (DUTIABLE COMMODITIES ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	109	Title:	DUTIABLE COMMODITIES ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	65	Heading:	Definition of tobacco	Version Date:	30/06/1997

In the application of this Ordinance to tobacco-
"Chinese prepared tobacco" (中國熟煙) (Suk Yin 熟煙) is tobacco prepared in the traditional Chinese manner from tobacco leaf grown in China, and comprises 7 main types, namely-

Sang Chit (

生切

)

Ting Sook (

丁熟

)

Yee Sook (

二熟

)

Chai See (

齊絲

)

Kan Yip (

揀葉

)

Sheung Sook (

上熟

)

and Jing Chit (

正切

)

and may include any other traditional Chinese prepared tobacco which, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is of a type and quality approximate to any of the 7 types of Chinese prepared tobacco specified above; (Amended 3 of 1970 s. 29; L.N. 294 of 1982; L.N. 254 of 1997)

"cigar" (雪茄) means any roll of tobacco capable of being smoked by itself and which-

(a) has an outer wrapper of natural tobacco; or

(b) predominately contains broken or threshed leaf and has a binder of reconstituted tobacco and an outer wrapper of reconstituted tobacco fitted spirally; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)

"cigarette" (香煙) means any roll of tobacco capable of being smoked by itself not being a cigar; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)
"manufacture" (製造) means the conversion of tobacco into manufactured tobacco;
"manufactured tobacco" (製成煙草) includes cigarettes, cigars, snuff, hand-rolling tobacco, smoking tobacco, cigar cuttings, reconstituted tobacco and Chinese prepared tobacco; (Added 66 of 1986 s. 29)
"manufacturer" (製造商) includes any person who owns or controls any factory or other place wherein tobacco is manufactured;
"tobacco" (煙草) includes manufactured and unmanufactured tobacco of every description and tobacco stalks, tobacco refuse, tobacco seedlings and tobacco plants;
"unmanufactured tobacco" (未製成煙草) means tobacco which has undergone no process of manufacture except curing, stripping or drying or any of them.