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Apr 1, 2010
3 cigarette sellers suspended
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THE Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has suspended the licences of three tobacco retailers for repeatedly selling tobacco products to underage persons. HSA plainclothes inspectors caught an employee working at a 7-Eleven outlet on Victoria Street, Bugis Village, selling a packet of cigarettes to a person below 18 years. The worker compounded the offence.
Following that, an employee from Fu Chan F&B was caught selling a packet of cigarettes to an underage person on Sept 22 last year during HSA's routine surveillance rounds. The licensee of Hup Kim at Block 191, Lorong 4 Toa Payoh, was also caught red-handed by HSA's plainclothes inspectors for the same offence last Oct 8.
All three retail outlets had previously been caught for similar offences, and thus had their licences suspended by the HSA for six months each. Errrant retailers can be fined up to $5,000 for the first conviction and up to $10,000, as well as a suspension of retail licence, for subsequent convictions.
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Apr 1, 2010
3 cigarette sellers suspended
<!-- by line --> By Lin Yingxin
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THE Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has suspended the licences of three tobacco retailers for repeatedly selling tobacco products to underage persons. HSA plainclothes inspectors caught an employee working at a 7-Eleven outlet on Victoria Street, Bugis Village, selling a packet of cigarettes to a person below 18 years. The worker compounded the offence.
Following that, an employee from Fu Chan F&B was caught selling a packet of cigarettes to an underage person on Sept 22 last year during HSA's routine surveillance rounds. The licensee of Hup Kim at Block 191, Lorong 4 Toa Payoh, was also caught red-handed by HSA's plainclothes inspectors for the same offence last Oct 8.
All three retail outlets had previously been caught for similar offences, and thus had their licences suspended by the HSA for six months each. Errrant retailers can be fined up to $5,000 for the first conviction and up to $10,000, as well as a suspension of retail licence, for subsequent convictions.
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