LawgistThe Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act
17Adjudication
Any confiscation may be adjudged or costs may be ordered to be paid,--
(a) without any limit, by the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such confiscation has been made or costs have been ordered to be paid, as the case may be;
(b) subject to such limits as may be specified by the Central Government in this behalf, by such other court, not below a civil court having pecuniary jurisdiction exceeding five thousand rupees, as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise in this behalf.
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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
