Drugs Act, 1976 (Act No. XXXI of 1976).

This Act, consisting of 45 sections divided into five Chapters, provides for the requirements to produce, use and trade in drug substances or mixture of substances that is manufactured, sold, stored, offered for sale or represented for internal or external use in the treatment, mitigation, prevention or diagnosis of disease, an abnormal physical state, or the symptoms thereof in human beings or animals, or the restoration, correction, or modification of organic functions in human beings or animals. These substances are intended to be used for the destruction or repulsion of such vermin, insects, rodents and other organisms as cause, carry or transmit disease in human beings or animals or for disinfection in residential areas or in premises in which food is manufactured, prepared or kept or stored, or even pesticides which may cause health hazard to the public.