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 28A: Penalty for not keeping documents, etc., and for non-disclosure of information.
    1[28A. Penalty for not keeping documents, etc., and for non-disclosure of information.-- Whoever without reasonable cause or excuse, contravenes the provisions of section 18B shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or 2[with fine which shall not be less than twenty thousand rupees or with both].
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 68 of 1982 s. 24 (w.e.f. 1-2-1983).
2. Subs. by Act 26 of 2008, s. 8, for "with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both" (w.e.f. 10-8-2009).

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