96A Minister may prohibit smoking on international air routes

New Zealand international airline means a New Zealand air transport enterprise that is offering or operating a scheduled international air service or a non-scheduled international flight to smoke means to smoke, hold, or otherwise have control over an ignited product, weed, or plant; and smoked and smoking have corresponding meanings.

(2) The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette,--
- (a) designate any 1 or more international air routes, or class or classes of international air routes, or all international air routes generally, as non-smoking routes; and
- (b) exempt any specified route or part of a route from any designation imposed by the Minister in accordance with paragraph (a), subject to any conditions that the Minister thinks fit.
(3) The Minister shall, before giving any notice under subsection (2), consult with New Zealand international airlines.
(4) A New Zealand international airline that is operating an aircraft carrying passengers on any route designated as a non-smoking route pursuant to this section shall ensure that--
- (a) there are prominent notices displayed in the aircraft indicating that smoking is not permitted; and
- (b) an announcement is made to passengers on the aircraft at the commencement of each journey on the route advising that smoking is not permitted.
(5) No New Zealand international airline that is operating an aircraft carrying passengers on any route designated as a non-smoking route pursuant to this section shall permit any person to smoke on that aircraft.
(6) No person shall smoke while on any aircraft operated by a New Zealand international airline carrying passengers on any route designated as a non-smoking route pursuant to this section.