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HEALTH ACT 1911 - SECT 229

229 .         The appointed standard or The British Pharmacopoeia to be standard

        (1)         In every proceeding under this Act with respect to any drug, the standard settled and appointed by regulations under this Act shall be the standard, or if no such standard shall have been settled and appointed in respect of any drug, the pharmacopoeia as defined by The British Pharmacopoeia shall be taken as the standard.

        (2)         A purchaser of a drug for which a standard referred to in subsection (1) exists shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to have demanded the standard quality of that drug.

        (3)         A drug for which a standard referred to in subsection (1) exists shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be pure if it is in conformity with that standard.

        [Section 229 inserted by No. 26 of 1985 s. 7.]



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