Act Info:
THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT, 1940
[Act, No. 23 of 1940]1
[10th April, 1940]
PREAMBLE
An Act to regulate the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs2[and cosmetics].
WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate the3[import, manufacture, distribution and sale] of drugs2[and cosmetics];
AND WHEREAS the Legislatures of all the Provinces have passed resolutions in terms of section 103 of the Government of India Act, 1935 in relation to such of the above-mentioned matters and matters ancillary thereto as are enumerated in List II of the Seventh Schedule to the said Act;
It is hereby enacted as follows:--
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1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gazette of India, 1940, Pt. V, p. 34; for the Report of the Select Committee, see Gazette of India, 1940, Pt. V. p. 143.
The Act has been applied to all the partially excluded areas in the State of Orissa, see Orissa Government Notification No. 3358-LSG, dated 25th August, 1941.
2. Inserted by Act 21 of 1962, Section 2 (w.e.f. 27-7-1964).
3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for certain words.