Cap. 31 Art. 40Power of Minister to make regulations for controlling drugs or chemical products.

The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, and so far as he may consider necessary or expedient for the protection of the public health, make regulations for controlling the manufacture, exportation, importation, possession, distribution and sale of such drugs or chemical products as may be deemed by him to require such control in the public interest, and for preventing their improper use, and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power for -

(a) regulating the issue by the persons mentioned in article 31(1) of prescriptions containing any such drug or chemical product and the dispensing of any such prescription;

(b) requiring persons engaged in the manufacture, exportation, importation, sale, or distribution of any such drug or chemical product to keep and produce for inspection such books and to furnish such information as may be prescribed; and

(c) requiring and regulating the labelling and marking of any such drug or chemical product and regulating any advertisement thereof.

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