Whoever knowingly sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or issues from a dispensary for medicinal purposes, any drug or medical preparation, as a different drug or medical preparation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 6 months, or with fine which may extend to $1,0002008$3,0002008, or with both.
Section history
Section 276 — Sale of any drug as a different drug or preparation
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 276 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 276 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever knowingly sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or issues from a dispensary for medicinal purposes, any drug or medical preparation, as a different drug or medical preparation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or with fine, or with both.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 276]