Singapore legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Prohibition of advertisements relating to certain diseases
(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall take part in the publication of any advertisement referring to any article or articles of any description in terms which are calculated to lead to the use of that article or articles of that description as a medicine, appliance or remedy for the purpose of treatment of human beings for any of the diseases and conditions set out in the Schedule:Provided that this subsection shall not apply to any advertisement published by the Government or any public authority, or by the governing body of a public hospital or by any person authorised to publish the advertisement by the Minister.
(2)
In any proceedings for a contravention of subsection (1), it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that the advertisement to which the proceedings relate was published only so far as was reasonably necessary to bring it to the notice of persons of the following classes or of one or some of them:
members of a local or public authority;
members of the governing body of a public hospital;
registered medical practitioners;
registered dentists;
registered nurses and midwives;
registered pharmacists and holders of licences to sell poisons set out in the Schedule to the Poisons Act 1938;
persons undergoing training with a view to becoming registered medical practitioners, registered dentists, registered nurses or registered pharmacists.
(3)
The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, add to, vary or amend the Schedule.