Section 46
Labelling and marking of containers and packages
(1)
The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, make rules imposing such requirements as he considers necessary or expedient with respect to —
(a)
the labelling of containers of medicinal products;
(b)
the labelling of packages of medicinal products;
(c)
the display of distinctive marks on containers and packages of medicinal products.
(2)
No person shall sell or supply any medicinal product in such circumstances as to contravene any requirements imposed by such rules.
(3)
In so far as any such requirements relate to the labelling or marking of containers of medicinal products, a person who sells or supplies a medicinal product to which the requirements are applicable without its being enclosed in a container shall, except in so far as the rules otherwise provide,
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be taken to contravene those requirements as if he had sold or supplied it in a container not complying with those requirements.
(4)
Without prejudice to subsections (1), (2) and (3), no person shall sell or supply any medicinal product in a container or package which is labelled or marked in such a way that the container or package —
(a)
falsely describes that product; or
(b)
is likely to mislead as to the nature or quality of that product or as to the uses or effects of medicinal products of that description.