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PART V
CONTAINERS, PACKAGES AND IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS
44.
—(1) The Minister may by regulations impose such requirements as he considers necessary or expedient with respect to any of the following matters:
(a)
the labelling of containers of medicinal products;
(b)
the labelling of packages of medicinal products;
(c)
the display of distinctive marks on containers and packages of medicinal products.
(2) No person shall sell or supply any medicinal product in such circumstances as to contravene any requirements imposed by such regulations.
(3) In so far as any such requirements relate to the labelling or marking of containers of medicinal products, a person who sells or supplies a medicinal product to which the requirements are applicable without it being enclosed in a container shall, except in so far as the regulations otherwise provide, be taken to contravene those requirements as if he had sold or supplied it in a container not complying with those requirements.
(4) Without prejudice to subsections (1), (2) and (3), no person shall sell or supply a medicinal product of any description in a container or package which is labelled or marked in such a way that the container or package —
(a)
falsely describes the product; or
(b)
is likely to mislead as to the nature or quality of the product or as to the uses or effects of medicinal products of that description.
45.
—(1) The Minister may by regulations impose such requirements as he considers necessary or expedient with respect to leaflets relating to medicinal products which are supplied, or are intended to be supplied, with the products, whether by being enclosed in containers or packages of the products or otherwise.
(2) No person shall supply with any medicinal products, or have in his possession for the purpose of so supplying, a leaflet which contravenes any requirements imposed by such regulations.
(3) Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (2), no person shall supply with a medicinal product of any description, or have in his possession for the purpose of so supplying, a leaflet which —
(a)
falsely describes the product; or
(b)
is likely to mislead as to the nature or quality of the product or as to the uses or effects of medicinal products of that description.
46.
—(1) The Minister may by regulations prohibit the sale or supply of medicinal products otherwise than in containers which comply with such requirements as the Minister considers necessary or expedient and in particular may require such containers to be of such strength, to be made of such materials and to be of such shapes or patterns, as may be prescribed.
(2) No person shall sell or supply, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale or supply, any medicinal product in such circumstances as to contravene any requirements imposed by such regulations.
47.
—(1) The Minister may by regulations impose such requirements as he considers necessary or expedient with respect to any one or more of the following matters:
(a)
the colour of medicinal products;
(b)
the shape of medicinal products; and
(c)
the distinctive marks to be displayed on medicinal products.
(2) Such regulations may provide that medicinal products of any such description, or falling within any such class, as may be specified in the regulations shall not, except in such circumstances, if any, as may be so specified, be of any such colour or shape, or display any such mark, as may be so specified.
(3) No person shall sell or supply, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale or supply, any medicinal product which contravenes any requirements imposed by such regulations.