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Part 8Miscellaneous provisions

97Duty of officer to procure samples for analysis on request

Where any person, other than the manufacturer of the medicine or any agent or employee of the manufacturer, requests any officer in writing to procure a sample of any medicine and submit it for analysis for any purpose specified by that person, the officer, on payment by that person of the prescribed fee together with the cost of the sample, shall procure or arrange for another officer to procure a sample of the medicine and submit it for analysis for the specified purpose, unless he reasonably believes that the request is frivolous or vexatious.
Sections 69 and 70 shall, so far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the procuring and analysis of the sample.

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1969 No 7 s 26