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Bare acts > Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 > Section 2
 
  


 

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--


*[(a) "advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper or any other document or visible representation or announcement made by means of any light, sound, smoke or gas or by means of electronic transmission or by audio or visual transmission

(b) "container" means a box, bottle, casket, tin, can, barrel, case, tube, receptacle, sack, wrapper or other thing in which any infant milk substitute, feeding bottle or infant food is placed or packed for sale or distribution;

(c) "feeding bottle" means any bottle or receptacle used for the purpose of feeding infant milk substitutes, and includes a teat and a valve attached or capable of being attached to such bottle or receptacle;

(d) "health care system" means an institution or organisation engaged, either directly or indirectly, in health care for mothers, infants or pregnant women, and includes a health worker in private practice, *[a pharmacy, drug store and any association of health workers];


(e) "health worker" means a person engaged in health care for mothers, infants or pregnant women;

(f) "infant food" means any food (by whatever name called) being marketed or otherwise represented as a complement to mother's milk to meet the growing nutritional needs of the infant *[ after the age of six months and up to the age of two years];


(g) "infant milk substitute" means any food being marketed or otherwise represented as a partial or total replacement for mother's milk, *[for infant up to the age of two years];

(h) "label" means a display of written, marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter affixed to, or appearing upon, any container;

(i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

*[(j) "promotion" means to employ directly or indirectly any method of encouraging any person to purchase or use infant milk substitute, feeding bottle or infant food]

(2) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law or the relevant provision of the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. and infant foods.

*[Section 2 modified by Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Act, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

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