Disposable vaping devices will effectively be made legal in New Zealand after the government was forced to scrap a regulation that required any vape sold in the country to have a removable battery.
The backdown comes after Mason Corporation, which owns the vape store chain Shosha, took the issue to the High Court.
The government defended the action, but Associate Health Minister Casey Costello confirmed Crown Law had advised Cabinet that dropping the 2023 regulations was the “best way to resolve the case.”
The changes will be gazetted on June 24 and take effect from Sept. 1.
The regulation, which was introduced by the previous Labour government, effectively outlawed disposable vapes, which have an integral battery designed to be thrown away when the vaping liquid is exhausted….
Disposable Vapes Legal Again after New Zealand Scraps Regulation to Resolve Court Battle
