Singapore legislation

Section 10

of Sale of Drugs Act 1914

Section 10

Offences

(1)

Any person commits an offence who sells —

(a)

any adulterated drug without fully informing the purchaser at the time of the sale of the nature of the adulteration;

(b)

any drug in any package which bears or has attached thereto any false or misleading statement, word, brand, label or mark purporting to indicate the nature, quality, strength, purity, composition, weight, origin, age or proportion of the article contained in the package or of any ingredient thereof;

(c)

any drug containing any substance the addition of which is prohibited by regulations made under this Act;

(d)

any drug containing a greater proportion of any substance than is permitted by regulations made under this Act;

(e)

any drug for internal use which contains methyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol or denatured alcohol:Provided that it shall not be an offence to sell concentrated flavouring essences with an isopropyl alcohol base where these have been submitted to the Director, Scientific Services for examination and have been accepted by him as concentrated essence; (f)to the prejudice of the purchaser any drug which is not of the nature or not of the substance or not of the quality of the drug demanded by the purchaser.

(2)

Where regulations made under this Act contain provisions prescribing the composition of, or prohibiting or restricting the addition of any substance to, any drug, a purchaser of the drug shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purposes of this section to have demanded a drug complying with the provisions of such regulations.

(3)

In proceedings under this section it shall not be a defence that the purchaser bought for analysis and therefore was not prejudiced.

(4)

Any person who commits any offence mentioned in this section shall for the first offence be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000, and for any subsequent offence under this section, whether of the same or a different nature, to a fine not exceeding $4,000:Provided that if any such offence is committed by the personal act, default or culpable negligence of the offender, the offender shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $4,000 or to 3 months’ imprisonment although it may be a first offence.

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