Singapore legislation
Section 26
Section 26
Power to make regulations
(1)
The Minister may make regulations —
to prescribe the standard of strength, weight, quality or quantity of any drug, or of any ingredient or component part thereof;
to prohibit the addition of any specified thing or of more than the specified quantity or proportion thereof to any drug;
to prohibit any modes of manufacture, preparation or preservation of any drug;
to secure the cleanliness and freedom from contamination of any drug in the course of its manufacture, preparation, storage, packing, carriage, delivery, exposure for sale or sale and to secure the cleanliness of places, receptacles and vehicles used in such manufacture, preparation, storage, packing, carriage, delivery, exposure for sale or sale and for these purposes to require any person to submit to a medical examination;
to prescribe the mode of labelling drugs sold in packages or otherwise, and the matter to be contained or not to be contained in such labels;
to prescribe the method of analysis of any drug and form of certificate of analysis;
to fix the fees to be paid in respect of the analysis of any drug by an analyst and for any licence or registration issued or effected under this Act and for copies of a certificate of analysis;
to prohibit or regulate the sale, advertisement for sale, or importation of specified drugs;
to provide for the licensing and registration of premises used for, and persons engaged or occupied in the manufacture, preparation, storage, packing, carriage, delivery or exposure for sale or sale of any drug, and for these purposes to require photographs of persons so registered or licensed;
to prescribe fines not exceeding $1,000 for the breach of any regulations; and
generally to carry out this Act.
(2)
Any such regulations may be made applicable either to drugs generally or to specified drugs only.
(3)
All regulations made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication.
(4)
Notwithstanding anything in any regulations made under this section, any person may, at any time within 12 months after the date of the publication in the Gazette of such regulations, sell any drug the sale of which is otherwise lawful, if he proves that at that date such drug was part of the existing stock-in-trade in Singapore of any person carrying on business there and that since that date no act has been done whereby the drug fails to conform to the requirements of those regulations.
(5)
For the purposes of subsection (4) any goods purchased before the said date for importation into Singapore shall be deemed to be part of the purchaser’s stock‑in‑trade in Singapore.