Medicines Act 1975 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Containers, Packages and Identification of Medicinal Products
45. Leaflets
Feedback & supportThe Minister may by regulations impose any requirements that the Minister 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.
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;
A person must not supply with any medicinal products, or have in the person’s possession for the purpose of so supplying, a leaflet which contravenes any requirements imposed by the regulations mentioned in subsection (1).
Without affecting subsections (1) and (2), a person must not supply with a medicinal product of any description, or have in the person’s possession for the purpose of so supplying, a leaflet which —
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.