# The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015, Paragraph 4: Text about cigarette papers and filters


(1) If, in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4, a unit packet of hand rolling tobacco includes both cigarette papers and filters or either cigarette papers or filters, the external packaging of the unit packet, and of any container packet in which it is contained, may have printed on it such of the following texts as is applicable—
(a) “includes cigarette papers and filters”,
(b) “includes cigarette papers”, or
(c) “includes filters”,
but only if each of the conditions in sub-paragraph (3) is met.
(2) If, in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 4, a container packet of hand rolling tobacco includes both cigarette papers and filters or either cigarette papers or filters, the external packaging of the container packet may have printed on it such of the following texts as is applicable—
(a) “includes cigarette papers and filters”,
(b) “includes cigarette papers”, or
(c) “includes filters”,
but only if each of the conditions in sub-paragraph (3) is met.
(3) Those conditions are—
(a) that the text is in lower-case type,
(b) that the text is printed in Helvetica type,
(c) that the colour of the text is Pantone Cool Gray 2 C with a matt finish,
(d) that the text is in a normal, weighted, regular typeface,
(e) that the text appears below any variant name (or, if there is no variant name, below any brand name),
(f) that the size of the text is no larger than 10 point, and
(g) that the text appears only once.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111129876/schedule/3/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-regulations-2015/schedule-3/paragraph-4
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