Section 6
Prohibition of import into, and export from, India of certain advertisements.
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.
No person
shall import into, or export from, the territories to which this Act extends any documents containing an
advertisement of the nature referred to in section 3 or in section 4 or section 5, and any document
containing any such advertisements shall be deemed to be goods of which the import or export has been
prohibited under section 19 of the Sea Customs Act, 1878 (8 of 1878), and all the provisions of that Act
shall have effect accordingly, except that section 183 thereof shall have effect as if for the word 'shall'
therein the word 'may' were substituted.