Control of Tobacco Auction Floors (Rejection of Contaminated Tobacco) Regulations (Cap. 65:03).

These Regulations, made under section 38 of the Control of Tobacco Auction Floors Act grants power to the Tobacco Control Commission to reject any tobacco brought to any auction floors which is: (a) containing contaminants set out in Column 1 in excess of the quantities respectively set out in Column 2 of the Schedule; (b) packed in any bale, and mixed with plastic or plastic material, synthetics or other non-tobacco-related substances or objects. Any tobacco rejected pursuant to regulation 2 shall not be sold within Malawi or be exported without the prior written authority of the Commission and no auction floors shall accept tobacco from any person whose tobacco has previously been rejected without the prior written approval of the Commission. The Commission may suspend any person from selling tobacco at any auction floors who persistently brings to any auction floors tobacco mixed with other substances.