Act Number: 41

Act Name: The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992

Year: 1992

Enactment Date: 1992-12-29

Long Title: An Act to provide for the regulation of production, supply and distribution of infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles and infant foods with a view to the protection and promotion of breast-feeding and ensuring the proper use of infant foods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development

Department:

Section 3: Certain prohibitions in relation to infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles and infant foods.
    No person shall--
         (a) advertise, or take part in the publication of any advertisement, for the distribution, sale or supply of infant milk substitutes 1[, feeding bottles or infant foods]; or
         (b) give an impression or create a belief in any manner that feeding of 2[infant milk substitutes and infant foods are] equivalent to, or better than, mother's milk; or
         3[(c) take part in the promotion of infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles or infant foods.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 38 of 2003, s. 3, for "or feeding bottles" (w.e.f. 1-11-2003).
2. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for "infant milk substitutes is" (w.e.f. 1-11-2003).
3. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for clause (c) (w.e.f. 1-11-2003).
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