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Section No :  
Acts & Ordinances
COSMETICS, DEVICES AND DRUGS
Marginal Notes
1. This Act may be cited as the Cosmetics., Devices and Drugs Act, No. 27 of 1980, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, appoint.
2. Licensing of persons and premises for manufacturing &c cosmetics.
3. Prohibition of manufacture, importation, sale and distribution of cosmetics.
4. Where standard is prescribed for cosmetic.
5. Prohibition on manufacture, importation, sale and distribution &c of devices.
6. Licensing of persons for manufacture &c of devices.
7. Labelling, packaging and advertising devices.
8. Where standard is prescribed for devices.
9. Licensing of persons and premises for manufacturing &c. drugs.
10. Probation on manufacture, importation, sale and distribution of drugs.
11. Labelling, packaging and advertising drugs.
12. Labelling,&c conformity with the standard.
13. Sale of certain drugs prohibited unless premise and process of manufacture have been approved.
14. Sale of certain drugs prohibited unless the batch from which, the drug Is taken is approved as reliable.
15. Distribution of samples prohibited.
16. Total prohibition on sale of certain drugs.
17. Advertise importation, sale and distribution of cosmetics, devices and drugs as treatment for certain diseases prohibited.
18. Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Technical Advisory Committee.
19. Duties of the Committee.
20. Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority.
21. Authorized Officers.
22. Powers of Authorized Officers,
23. Procedure respect of articles seized.
24. Analysis.
25. Approved Analyst.
26. Offences.
27. Person committing offence to be arrested without a warrant and to be tried by a Magistrate's Court.
28. Institution of proceedings.
29. Where the accused proves that some other person is guilty of the offence.
30. Defence.
31. Report or certificate of the Approved Analyst or an Additional Approved Analyst.
32. Authorized Officer to produce before court the part of the sample retained by him.
33. Copy or extract of document taken by an Authorized Officer.
34. Presumptions.
35. Offences committed by a body of persons.
36. Protection for action taken in good faith.
37. Application of other written law to cosmetics, devices and drugs.
38. Regulations.
39. Savings.
40. Interpretation.