Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation Ofproduction, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 Section 9 - Bare Act

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Section 9 - Inducement to health worker for promoting use of infant milk substitutes, etc

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(1) No person who produces, supplies, distributes or sells infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles or infant foods shall offer or give, directly or indirectly, any financial inducements or gifts to a health worker or to any member of his family for the purpose of promoting the use of such substitutes or bottles or foods.

¹ [(2) No producer, supplier or distributor referred to in sub-section (/), shall offer or give any contribution or pecuniary benefit to a health worker or any association of health workers, including funding of seminar, meeting, conference, educational course, contest, fellowship, research work or sponsorship.]

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1. Substituted by the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Act, 2003 (38 of 2003). Prior to substitution it read as under :

"(2) Where such person makes any contribution to, or incurs any expenditure on, a health worker, either directly or indirectly, such person and such health worker shall disclose the same to the institution or organisation to which such health worker is attached."

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