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Act 21 of 1954.]
Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements)
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- (ii) any substance intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in human beings or animals;
- (iii) any article, other than food, intended to affect or influence in any way the structure or any organic function of the body of human beings or animals;
- (iv) any article intended for use as a component of any medicine, substance or article, referred to in sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii);
- (c) 'magic remedy' includes a talisman, mantra, kavacha, and any other charm of any kind which is alleged to possess miraculous powers for or in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease in human beings or animals or for affecting or influencing in any way the structure or any organic function of the body of human beings or animals;
- (d) 'taking any part in the publication of any advertisement' includes—
- (i) the printing of the advertisement,
- (ii) the publication of any advertisement outside the territories to which this Act extends by or at the instance of a person residing within the said territories;
- (e) 'venereal disease' includes syphilis, gonorrhea, soft chancre, venereal granuloma and lympho granuloma.
3. Prohibition of advertisement of certain drugs for treatment of certain diseases and disorders.—Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall take any part in the publication of any advertisement referring to any drug in terms which suggest or are calculated to lead to the use of that drug for
- (a) the procurement of miscarriage in women or prevention of conception in women; or
- (b) the maintenance or improvement of the capacity of human beings for sexual pleasure; or
- (c) the correction of menstural disorder in women; or
- (d) the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any venereal disease or any other disease or condition which may be specified in rules made under this Act.
4. Prohibition of misleading advertisements relating to drugs.—Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall take any part in the publication of any advertisement relating to a drug if the advertisement contains any matter which—
- (a) directly or indirectly gives a false impression regarding the true character of the drug; or
- (b) makes a false claim for the drug; or
- (c) is otherwise false or misleading in any material particular,
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