Act Number: 23

Act Name: The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940

Year: 1940

Enactment Date: 1940-04-10

Long Title: An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs and cosmetics.

Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Department: Department of Health and Family Welfare

Section 10A: Power of Central Government to prohibit import of drugs and cosmetics in public interest.
    1[10A. Power of Central Government to prohibit import of drugs and cosmetics in public interest.--Without prejudice to any other provision contained in this Chapter, if the Central Government is satisfied that the use of any drug or cosmetic is likely to involve any risk to human beings or animals or that any drug does not have the therapeutic value claimed for it or contains ingredients and in such quantity for which there is no therapeutic justification and that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do then, that Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit the import of such drug or cosmetic.]
Notes:
1 Ins. by s. 8, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-2-1983).
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