Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Health Products (Advertisement of Specified Health Products) Regulations 2016
Regulation 10
Sales promotions
Subregulation 1
A person conducting any sales promotion involving a specified health product must not, in the course of that sales promotion, offer —
any prize as an inducement to purchase the specified health product;
together with the specified health product —
any other health product; or
any medicinal product; or
any sample of the specified health product.
Subregulation 2
A person must not distribute or give, or cause to be distributed or given, or assist in the distribution or giving of, any free sample of a specified health product to the public or any section of the public.
Subregulation 3
To avoid doubt, paragraph (2) does not prohibit a qualified practitioner, or a person acting in accordance with the instructions of a qualified practitioner, from giving, or causing to be given, a sample of a specified health product to any patient of that qualified practitioner.
Subregulation 4
In this regulation, “medicinal product” has the same meaning as in the Medicines Act (Cap. 176).