Sale of patent or proprietory medicines or pharmaceutical specialities
35. No patent or proprietary medicine or pharmaceutical speciality or any other medicine, whether allopathic, unani, ayurvedic, homoeopathic or biochemic, for the time being not recognised by the accepted pharmacopoeias, shall be offered for sale to the public or advertised for such sale, unless two samples thereof shall have been sent to the Director, Central Drugs Laboratory, and the latter shall have determined that the medicine or speciality is suitable or proper for use by the public.
Prohibition to sell drugs in public streets, etc.
36. No person shall, in any public street, highway, footpath or park or on any public transport or conveyance, peddle, hawk or offer for sale or distribute free of charge any medicine of pharmaceutical speciality whether allopathic, unani, ayurvedic, homoeopathic or of any other description.
Penalty
37. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 35 or section 36 shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
Offences by Companies, etc.
38. Where the person guilty of an offence under this Act is a company, corporation or firm every director, partner and officer of the company, corporation or firm with whose knowledge and consent the offence was committed shall be guilty of the like offence.
Powers to try offence summarily
39. Any Magistrate of the first class or any bench of Magistrates invested with the powers of a Magistrate of the first class empowered for the time being to try in a summary way the offences specified in sub- section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, may, on application in this behalf being made by the prosecution, try in accordance with the provisions contained in sections 262 to 265 of that Code, any such offence punishable under this Act and any rules made thereunder as may be prescribed.
Special provision regarding imprisonment and fine
40. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 32 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, it shall be lawful for any Magistrate of the first class to pass any sentence authorised by this Act even if such sentence exceeds his powers under section 32 of that Code.
Protection to persons acting under this Act
41. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rules made thereunder.
