Medicines Act · s 33

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s 33Counterfeit medicines

(1)

Any person concerned in the manufacture, supply, donation, distribution, trafficking, brokering, exportation, importation or possession of counterfeit medicines is guilty of an offence.

(2)

In this section, “counterfeit medicine” means a medicine that is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to its identity, source or both, whether it is a branded product or a generic product; and may include products with correct ingredients or with incorrect ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient active ingredients or with false packaging.