Let me clarify on this law, if you happen to hear or receive any
form of advertisment or sale tactics that contravene this law, feel
free to contact the government agency to take action against the
company/person concerned.
Interpretation.
2. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject
or context
"advertisement" includes any notice, circular, pamphlet, label,
wrapper or other document, any announcement made orally or by any
means of producing or transmitting light or sound and any other
form of advertising;
"substance recommended as a medicine" , in relation to the sale of
an article consisting of or comprising a substance so recommended,
means a substance which is referred to
(a) on the article, or on any wrapper or container in which the
article is sold, or on any label affixed to, or in any document
enclosed in, the article or such a wrapper or container;
(b) in any placard or other document exhibited at the place where
the article is sold; or
(c) in any advertisement published after the passing of this Act by
or on behalf of the manufacturer of the article, or the person
carrying on the business in the course of which the article was
sold, or, in a case where the article was sold under a proprietary
designation, the proprietor of the designation,
Prohibition of advertisements relating to certain diseases.
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall take
part in the publication of any advertisement referring to any
article or articles of any description in terms which are
calculated to lead to the use of that article or articles of that
description as a medicine, appliance or remedy for the purpose of
treatment of human beings for any of the diseases and conditions
set out in the Schedule:
DISEASES AND CONDITIONS
1.Blindness
2.Cancer
3.Cataract
4.Drug addiction
5.Deafness
6.Diabetes
7.Epilepsy or fits
8.Hypertension
9.Insanity
10.Kidney diseases
11.Leprosy
12.Menstrual disorders
13.Paralysis
14.Tuberculosis
15.Sexual function
16.Infertility
17.Impotency
18.Frigidity
19.Conception and pregnancy.
(2) In any proceedings for a contravention of subsection (1), it
shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that the
advertisement to which the proceedings relate was published only so
far as was reasonably necessary to bring it to the notice of
persons of the following classes or of one or some of them:
(a) members of a local or public authority;
(b) members of the governing body of a public hospital;
(c) registered medical practitioners;
(d) registered dentists;
(e) registered nurses and midwives;
(f) registered pharmacists and holders of licences to sell poisons
set out in the Schedule to the Poisons Act;
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(g) persons undergoing training with a view to becoming registered
medical practitioners, registered dentists, registered nurses or
registered pharmacists.