46Custody of medicines

1. Every person commits an offence against this Act who has any medicine in his charge or possession (whether for the purposes of sale or for any other purpose) otherwise than in a container conforming to the relevant requirements (if any) of this Act and of any regulations made under this Act, except in the course of manufacturing or packing that medicine.

2. It is a defence to a charge brought under subsection (1) if the defendant proves that, at the material time,—

3. the medicine was in the container in which he acquired it, and the container bore the label that it bore when he acquired the container:
4. the medicine had been necessarily removed from its container for the effective and lawful use of that medicine.