Medicines Act 1975 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Containers, Packages and Identification of Medicinal Products
44. Labelling and marking of containers and packages
Feedback & supportThe Minister may by regulations impose any requirements that the Minister considers necessary or expedient with respect to any of the following matters:
Minister
“Minister” means —(a)except as provided in paragraph (b), the Minister for Health; and(b)for the purpose of performing any function under this Act (whether by the making of any regulations or order or otherwise) where the function is performed exclusively in relation to veterinary medicinal products and animals, the Minister for National Development;
the labelling of containers of medicinal products;
the labelling of packages of medicinal products;
the display of distinctive marks on containers and packages of medicinal products.
A person must not sell or supply any medicinal product in such circumstances as to contravene any requirements imposed by the regulations mentioned in subsection (1).
sell
“sell” includes barter, and also includes offering or attempting to sell, or receiving for sale, or having in possession for sale, or exposing for sale, or sending or delivering for sale, or causing or allowing to be sold, offered or exposed for sale, and “sale” and “sold” have corresponding meanings;
Insofar 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 is, except insofar as the regulations otherwise provide, taken to contravene those requirements as if the person had sold or supplied it in a container not complying with those requirements.
labelling
“labelling”, in relation to a container or package of medicinal products, means affixing to or otherwise displaying on it a notice describing or otherwise relating to the contents, and “label” has a corresponding meaning;
Without affecting subsections (1), (2) and (3), a person must not 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 —
falsely describes the product; or
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.