Section 6

A person shall not hold out or recommend to the public by any notice or advertisement, or by any written or printed papers or handbills, or by any label or words written or printed, affixed to or delivered with, any packet, box, bottle phial, or other inclosure containing the same, any pills, capsules, powders, lozenges, tinctures, potions, cordials, electuaries, plasters, unguents, salves, ointments, drops, lotions, oils, spirits, medicated herbs and waters, chemical and officinal preparations whatsoever, to be used or applied externally or internally as medicines or medicaments for the prevention, cure or relief of any venereal disease:

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any advertisement, notification, announcement, recommendation or holding out made or published by the Government of Malaysia or the

Government of any State or by any local or public authority or to any publication sent only to registered medical practitioners or to registered pharmacists or wholesale dealers for the purposes of their business.

In this section and in section 5 “venereal disease” means syphilis, gonorrhoea, soft chancre, or bubo (lymphogranuloma inguinale).

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