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 15: Jurisdiction.
    No Court inferior to that 1[of a Metropolitan Magistrate or of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class] shall try an offence punishable under section 13.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 68 of 1982, s. 11, for certain words (w.e.f. 1-2-1983).
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