LawgistThe Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act
1Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
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1. 1st August 1993, vide notification No. G.S.R. 527(E), dated 31st July, 1993, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, sec. 3(i).
All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Certain prohibitions in relation to infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles and infant foods
- 4 Prohibition of incentives for the use or sale of infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles
- 5 Donations of infant milk substitutes or feeding bottles or equipment of materials relating thereto
- 6 Information on containers and labels of infant milk substitutes of infant foods
- 7 Educational and other materials relating to feeding of infants to contain certain particulars
- 8 Health care system
- 9 Inducement to health worker for promoting use of infant milk substitutes, etc
- 10 Special provision relating to employees of person who produces, supplies, distributes or sells infant milk substitutes, etc
- 11 Standards of infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles or infant foods
- 12 Powers of entry and search
- 13 Power to seize infant milk substitutes, etc., or containers thereof
- 14 Confiscation
- 15 Power to give option to pay cost in lieu of confiscation
- 16 Confiscation not to interfere with other punishments
- 17 Adjudication
- 18 Giving of opportunity to the owner of the seized infant milk substitute or feeding bottle or infant food or container thereof
- 19 Appeal
- 20 Penalty
- 21 Cognizance of offences
- 22 Offences by companies
- 23 Offences to be cognizable and bailable
- 24 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 25 Application of Act 37 of 1954 not barred
- 26 Power to make rules
