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DRUGS ACT 1908 - SECT 59

59—Punishment for forging certificate or warranty

        (1)         Any person who shall forge, or who shall utter, knowing it to be forged, any certificate or any writing purporting to contain a warranty, shall be guilty of an offence, and be punishable on conviction by a penalty of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

        (2)         Every person who shall wilfully apply to a drug, in any proceedings under this Act, a certificate of warranty given in relation to any other drug shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

        (3)         Every person who shall wilfully give a label with any article sold by him which shall falsely describe the article sold shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

        (4)         Any person who shall for any purpose whatever, directly or indirectly, publish or advertise in any way any matter purporting to be a warranty or analysis under this Act, or to be part of any such warranty or analysis, or any matter purporting to be a copy of any such warranty or analysis or part thereof, unless such matter be accurate and true in every particular, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

        (5)         Any person who shall in any writing, for trade purposes or any advertisement, refer to any analysis made for the purposes of this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.



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