‘5. Prohibition on sale of tobacco products to and by persons below the age of eighteen years.—(1) The owner or the manager or the in-charge of the affairs of a place where cigarettes or other tobacco products are sold shall ensure that,—
(a) a board with a warning as specified in “Annexure I” is displayed at the entrance of the place where cigarettes or other tobacco products are sold and all the components of the board should appear in a manner exactly as in the soft copy provided in the compact disk [CD] accompanying these rules:
Provided that such board shall not have any advertisement or promotional messages or pictures or images of cigarettes or any other tobacco products. 1
(b) no tobacco product is sold through a vending machine;
(c) no tobacco product is handled or sold by a person below the age of eighteen years;
(d) tobacco products are not displayed in a manner that enables easy access of tobacco products to persons below the age of eighteen years.
(2) The onus of proof, that the buyer of the tobacco product is not a person below the age of eighteen years lies with the seller of the tobacco products and the seller in case of doubts may request the buyer to provide appropriate evidence or age proof of having reached eighteen years of age’,
3. After rule 5 as so amended, the following rule shall be inserted, namely: — *6. Recovery of Fine by authorized officers. — The authorised officers mentioned in Annexure n shall be competent to act under and compound the offences committed in violation of clause (a) and clause (b) of section 6 of the Act’.