Drugs (Control) Act, 1950
2. Interpretation. -
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
requires, -
(a) “dealer”
means a person carrying on, either personally or through any other person, the
business of selling any drugs, whether wholesale or retail;
(b) “drug”
means any drug as defined in Clause (b) of Section 3 of the Drugs and Cosmetics
Act, 1940(23 of 1940) in respect of which a declaration has been made under
Section 3;
(c) “offer for sale “
includes a reference to an intimation by a person of the price proposed by him
for a sale of any drug, made by the publication of a price list, by exposing
the dug for sale in association with a mark indicating price, by the furnishing
of a quotation or otherwise howsoever;
(d) “producer “
producer includes a manufacturer.
(1-A) As from the Ist
November, 1956, any reference in this Act to the Central Government or the
Chief Commissioner shall, in relation to the territories which, immediately
before the Ist November 1956, were comprised in the
Part C State of Ajmer or Bhopal and Vindhya Pradesh or Coorg or Kutch be construed as a reference to the State Government
of Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh or Mysore or Bombay,
as the case may be.
(2) A drug shall be deemed to be in the
possession of a person -
( i )
when it is held on behalf of that person by person or when held by that person
behalf of another person;
(ii) notwithstanding
that it is mortgaged to another person.