Section 1
Short title, extent and commencement.
The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act, 1954
About this Act
An Act to control the advertisement of drugs in certain cases, to prohibit the advertisement for certain purposes of remedies alleged to possess magic qualities and to provide for matters connected therewith.
(1) This Act may be called the Drugs and Magic
Remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act, 1954.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***, and applies also to persons domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by Notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(2) It extends to the whole of India 1***, and applies also to persons domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who are outside the said territories.
(3) It shall come into force on such date2 as the Central Government may, by Notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Notes
1. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule
(w.e.f. 31-10- 2019).
2 1st April, 1955, vide notification No. S.R.O. 511, dated 26th February, 1995, see Gazette of India, 1955, Part II, s. 3.
2 1st April, 1955, vide notification No. S.R.O. 511, dated 26th February, 1995, see Gazette of India, 1955, Part II, s. 3.