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The Madhya Pradesh Drugs (Control) Act, 1949
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The Madhya Pradesh Drugs (Control) Act, 1949, is a regulatory statute designed to ensure the availability and affordability of essential medicines within the state. It empowers the State Government to fix maximum prices for drugs, limit the quantities that dealers or producers can possess, and prevent artificial shortages caused by hoarding or refusal to sell. For the ordinary citizen, this Act serves as a consumer protection mechanism, ensuring that life-saving medications remain accessible at fair prices. It mandates transparency in transactions, such as the issuance of cash memos, and provides the government with the authority to inspect and regulate the drug supply chain.
- 1. Short title and extent
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Drugs to which this Act applies
- 4. Fixing of maximum prices and maximum quantities which may be held or sold
- 5. Restrictions on sale, etc., where maximum is fixed under section
- 6. General limitation on quantity which may be possessed at one time
- 7. Provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply to a dealer or producer in respect of any drug sold or produced by him.
- 8. Refusal to sell
- 9. Cash memorandum to be given of certain sales
- 10. Marking of prices and exhibiting price list
- 11. Obligation to state price separately on composite offer
- 12. Prohibition of sale, etc., and requisitioning of drugs
- 13. Penalties
- 14. Offences by Corporations
- 15. Procedure
- 16. Powers of search and seizure
- 17. Delegation of Powers
- 18. Power to make rules
- 19. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 20. Saving of other laws
- 21. Repeal and Saving
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