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Prohibitions and guidance relating to labels of designated products \r\nCHAPTER IV \r\nINFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS \r\n9. Informational and educational materials \r\n10. Health workers and health care facilities \r\nCHAPTER V \r\nREGISTRATION OF DESIGNATED PRODUCTS \r\nAND QUALITY ASSURANCE \r\n11. Quality assurance \r\n12. Investigation and inspection \r\n13. Investigation and filing of a case \r\n14. Appeal \r\n15. Public enforcement \r\nCHAPTER VI \r\nPENALTIES AND PROCEDURES \r\n16. Revocation or suspension of license, etc \r\n17. Penalties \r\n18. Responsibility of an individual for the act of a company, corporation, \r\npartnership or an institution \r\n19. Power to make rules \r\n20. Omitted \r\n21. Overriding effect \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PROTECTION OF BREAST-FEEDING AND CHILD NUTRITION \r\nORDINANCE, 2002 \r\n(XCIII of 2002) \r\n[26th October, 2002] \r\nAn \r\nOrdinance \r\nto provide for protection of breast-feeding and nutrition for infants and young children \r\nWHEREAS it is expedient to ensure safe and adequate nutrition for infants \r\nand young children by promoting and protecting breast -feeding, and by r egulating \r\nthe marketing and promotion of designated products including breast milk \r\nsubstitutes, and of feeding bottles, valves for feeding bottles, nipple shields, teats \r\nand pacifier and to provide for matters connected therewith or ancillary thereto; \r\nAND WHEREAS the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which \r\nrender it necessary to take immediate action; \r\nNOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Proclamation of Emergency of the \r\nfourteenth day of October, 1999, and the Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 of \r\n1999, read with the Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order No. 9 of 1999, and \r\nin exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, the President of the Islamic \r\nRepublic of Pakistan is pleased to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:– \r\nCHAPTER I \r\nINTRODUCTORY \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement .– (1) This Ordinance may be called \r\nthe Protection of Breast-feeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance, 2002. \r\n(2) It extends to \r\n2\r\n[whole] of \r\n3\r\n[the Punjab]. \r\n(3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the \r\nsubject or context,– \r\n \r\n1In pursuance of the Proclamation of Emergency of the fourteenth day of October, 1999, and the Provisional Constitution Order \r\nNo.1 of 1999, read with the Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order No.9 of 1999, and in exercise of all powers enabling \r\nhim in that behalf, the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan promulgated this Ordinance, which was published in the \r\nGazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary Part I, 26th October, 2002., pages 1545-1552. \r\nThis Ordinance was originally in the Federal ambit, however, the subject on which this law was ena cted devolved to the \r\nprovinces by virtue of 18th Amendment in the Constitution, hence it was adapted, with amendments, for the province of the \r\nPunjab by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 (XVI of 2012); and pub lished in \r\nthe Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155. \r\n2Substituted for the word “the whole” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 \r\n(Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.3. \r\n3Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Punjab Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act \r\nXVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.3. \r\n(a) \"infant\" means a child up to the age of twelve months; \r\n(b) \"young child\" means a child from the age of twelve months up to the \r\nage of two years; \r\n(c) \"advertise\" or \"advertising\" means to make any representation by any \r\nmeans whatsoever for the purpose of promoting sale or use of a \r\ndesignated product; \r\n(d) \"Board\" means the \r\n4\r\n[Punjab] Infant Feeding Board constituted under \r\nsection 3; \r\n(e) \"container\" means any form o f packaging of a designated product for \r\nsale as a retail unit; \r\n(f) \"designated product\" means– \r\n(i) any milk manufactured, marketed and promoted for the use of \r\nan infant or otherwise represented as a partial or total \r\nreplacement for mother's milk, whether o r not it is suitable for \r\nsuch replacement; \r\n(ii) any products manufactured, marketed, promoted or otherwise \r\nrepresented as a complement to mother's milk to meet the \r\ngrowing nutritional needs of an infant; \r\n(iii) any feeding bottle, teat, valve for feeding bo ttle, pacifier or \r\nnipple shield; and \r\n(iv) such other product as the \r\n5\r\n[Government] may, by notification in \r\nthe official Gazette, declare to be a designated product for the \r\npurposes of this Ordinance; \r\n(g) \"complementary food\" means any food suitable as an addition to breast \r\nmilk or to a breast milk substitute when either becomes insufficient to \r\nsatisfy the nutritional requirements of an infant, also commonly called \r\n\"weaning food\" or \"breast milk and young child supplement\"; \r\n(h) \"infant-formula\" means an anima l or vegetable based milk product \r\nmanufactured in accordance with the standards recommended by the \r\nCodex Alimentarius Commission and the Codex Code of Hygienic \r\nPractice for Foods for Infants and Children to approximate the normal \r\nnutritional requirements of an infant up to the age of six months; \r\n(i) \"feeding bottle\" means any bottle or receptacle marketed for the \r\npurpose of feeding an infant or a young child; \r\n(j) \"nipple shield\" means an appliance with a teat for a baby to suck from \r\nthe breast; \r\n(k) \"pacifier\" means an artificial teat for babies to suck, also called \r\n\"dummy\"; \r\n \r\n4Substituted for the word “National” by the Punjab Protection of Breast-Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act \r\nXVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.4. \r\n5Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012) ; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n(l) \"follow-up formula\" means an animal or vegetable based milk product \r\nmarketed for infants older than six months or young child and \r\nformulated industrially in accordance, with the stand ards of the Codex \r\nAlimentarius Commission and the Codex Code of Hygienic Practice for \r\nFoods for Infants and Children; \r\n(m) \"distributor\" means any person engaged in the business of marketing, \r\nwhether wholesale or retail, and includes a person providing prod uct \r\npublic relations and information services; \r\n6\r\n[(mm) “Government” means Government of the Punjab;] \r\n(n) \"health care facility\" means a Government, non -Government, semi -\r\nGovernment or private institution or organization, or private medical \r\npractitioner engag ed, directly or indirectly, in the provision of health \r\ncare to infants, young children, pregnant women or mothers, and \r\nincludes a day-care center, nursery and any other child-care institution; \r\n(o) \"health professional\" means a medical practitioner, nurse, nutritionist or \r\nsuch other persons as the \r\n7\r\n[Government] may, by notification in the \r\nofficial Gazette, specify; \r\n(p) \"health worker\" means any person providing services to infants, young \r\nchildren, pregnant women or mothers as a medical practitioner, and \r\nincludes a health professional, homeopath practitioner, hakim, nurse, \r\nmidwife, traditional birth attendant, pharmacist, dispensing chemist, \r\nnutritionist, hospital administrator or employee, whether professional or \r\nnot, whether paid or not, and any other person providing such services \r\nas the \r\n8\r\n[Government] may, by notification in the official Gazette, \r\nspecify; \r\n(q) \"Inspector\" means any person designated as Inspector under section \r\n12; \r\n(r) \"label\" means any tag, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter which \r\nis written, printed, stencilled, marked, embossed, attached or otherwise \r\nappearing on a container; \r\n(s) \"manufacturer\" means a person, corporation or other entity engaged or \r\ninvolved in the business of producing, processing, compounding, \r\nformulating, filling, packing, repacking, altering, ornamenting, finishing \r\nand labeling a designated product, whether directly, through an agent, \r\nor through a person controlled by or under an agreement; \r\n(t) \"market\" means any method of introducing or selling a designated \r\nproduct, and includes, but not limited to, promotion, distribution, \r\nadvertising, distribution of samples, product public relations and \r\nproduct information services; \r\n \r\n6Inserted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and \r\npublished in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.4. \r\n7Substituted for the word “Federal Governme nt” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012) ; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n8Ibid. \r\n(u) \"person\" means any individual, partnership, association, \r\nunincorporated organization, company , co -operative, corporation, \r\ntrustee, agent or any group of persons; \r\n(v) \" prescribed\" means prescribed by rules; \r\n(w) \"promote\" or \"promotion\" means any method of introducing a person to, \r\nor familiarizing a person with, a designated product or inducing a \r\nperson to buy or use a designated product, and includes, but not \r\nlimited to, advertising, offer of samples or gifts, distribution of literature, \r\npublic relations and information services related to a designated \r\nproduct, but does not include any prescription issued by a medical \r\npractitioner based on health grounds; \r\n9\r\n[(x) * * * * * * * * * * * ] \r\n(y) \"rules\" means rules made under this Ordinance; and \r\n(z) \"sample\" means any quantity of a designated product provided free of \r\ncost. \r\nCHAPTER II \r\nADMINISTRATION \r\n10\r\n[3. Punjab Infant Feeding Board .– (1) The Government shall, by notification in \r\nthe official Gazette, constitute the Punjab Infant Feeding Board. \r\n (2) The Board shall consist of a Chairperson, a Secretary, two Members of \r\nthe Provincial Assembly of the Punjab an d not more than such number of members \r\nas the Government may determine or as may be prescribed: \r\n Provided that not less than half of the total number of members of the Board \r\nshall comprise such persons as are professionally qualified with respect to infant and \r\nyoung child nutrition and at least one member of the Board shall be selected from \r\nthe industry relating to the manufacturing and marketing of designated products. \r\n (3) The Government shall nominate the members of the Board and they shall \r\nhold office for such term as may be determined by the Government or as may be \r\nprescribed.] \r\n11\r\n[4. Powers and functions of the Board .– The following shall be the powers and \r\nfunctions of the Board:– \r\n(a) to receive reports of violations of the provisions of this Ordinance or the rules; \r\n(b) to recommend investigation of cases against manufacturers, distributors or \r\nhealth workers found to be violating the provisions of this Ordinance or the \r\nrules; \r\n \r\n9Omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and \r\npublished in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.4. \r\n10Substituted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and \r\npublished in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.5. \r\n11Ibid., s.6. \r\n(c) to plan for and co-ordinate the dissemination of informational and educational \r\nmaterial on topics of infant feeding and recommend continuing educational \r\ncourses for health workers for purposes of this Ordinance; \r\n(d) to advise the Government on policies for the promotion and protection of \r\nbreast-feeding, and matters relating to designated products especially infant \r\nand young child nutrition, particularly through national or provincial education \r\ncampaigns, and to organize health education on the same for health workers \r\nand general public; and \r\n(e) to propose guidelines to the Gove rnment in respect of matters specified in \r\nclause (d).] \r\n12\r\n[5. Meeting of the Board.– The Secretary of the Board shall call meetings of the Board, \r\nat the direction of the Chairperson, and maintain minutes of such meetings.] \r\n13\r\n[6. * * * * * * * * * * * * ] \r\nCHAPTER III \r\nPROHIBITIONS \r\n7. Prohibited practices.– (1) No person shall, in any form whatsoever, promote \r\nany designated products except as provided for under this Ordinance. \r\n(2) No person shall in any manner assert that any designated product is a \r\nsubstitute for mother's milk, or that it is equivalent to or comparable with or superior \r\nto mother's milk. \r\n(3) No manufacturer or distributor shall offer, or make gift or contributions \r\nof any kind, or pay to any extent for any reason whatsoever, or give any kind of \r\nbenefit, to a health worker or his family, or any personnel employed, directly or \r\nindirectly, in a health care facility, or any member of the Board \r\n14\r\n[****] or the \r\nemployees thereof. \r\n(4) No manufacturer or distributor shall donate any designated product and \r\nequipment or services related to a designated product free of charge or at low cost to \r\na health care facility, or offer or give any benefit to a professional association of \r\nmedical practitioners for this purpose. \r\n(5) No person other than a health worker wh o is not engaged by a \r\nmanufacturer or distributor shall instruct any user on the need and proper \r\npreparation and use of any designated product: \r\nProvided that a manufacturer or distributor may instruct any user on the need \r\nand proper preparation and use of any designated product in accordance with the \r\nprovisions of section 8. \r\n(6) No distributor or manufacturer shall in furtherance of or for the \r\npurposes of its business have contact, directly , or indirectly, with general public \r\nwithin a health care facility. \r\n \r\n12Ibid., s.7. \r\n13Omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and \r\npublished in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.8. \r\n14The words “ or a Provincial Committee, as the case may be,” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 201 2) ; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, \r\npages 40153-40155, s.9. \r\n(7) No manufacturer, distributor or any person engaged by them shall \r\nproduce or distribute any educational or informational material relating to infant and \r\nyoung child feeding: \r\nProvided that any educational or informational material relating to a \r\ndesignated product may be provided by a manufacturer or distributor to a health \r\nprofessional subject to the prescribed conditions, and that the same shall be \r\nrestricted to scientific and factual matters, and shall not imply or create a belief that \r\nbottle-feeding is equivalent or superior to breast-feeding. \r\n8. Prohibitions and guidance relating to labels of designated products .– (1) \r\nNo designated product shall be marketed or sold in \r\n15\r\n[the Punjab] unless its label is in \r\naccordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules, and approved in the \r\nmanner as may be prescribed by the \r\n16\r\n[Government]: \r\nProvided that for any designated product already being sold in \r\n17\r\n[the Punjab], \r\na manufacturer or distributor shall provide for the label of such product within one \r\nhundred and eighty days of its approval in the manner as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) Label of a designated product shall be designed so as not to \r\ndiscourage breastfeeding and shall provide the necessary information in Urdu about \r\nthe appropriate use of such product and the age before which a designated product \r\nshould not be used. \r\n(3) Every container shall have a clear, conspicuous and easily understood \r\nmessage printed on it, or on a label that cannot become separated from it, which \r\nshall be written in Urdu, and if so desired by the manufacturers, in English as well. \r\n(4) The label shall– \r\n(a) not contain anything that may discourage breast-feeding; \r\n(b) contain a conspicuous notice in bold characters in the prescribed \r\nheight stating the following, namely:- \r\n\"MOTHER'S MILK IS BEST FOOD FOR YOUR BABY AND HELPS IN \r\nPREVENTING DIARRHOEA AND OTHER ILLNESSES\"; \r\n(c) instead of or in addition to the notice specified in clause (b), contain \r\nany other message as may be prescribed with respect to any \r\ndesignated product; \r\n(d) neither uses ex pression such as \"maternalized\" or ''humanized'' or \r\nequivalent nor contains any comparison with mother's milk. \r\n(e) not show ph otographs, drawings or graphics except that graphics may \r\nbe used to illustrate the correct method of preparation; \r\n(f) contain the name and address of manufacturer and of wholesale \r\ndistributor if a designated product is an imported item; and \r\n \r\n15Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 \r\n(Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.10. \r\n16Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012) ; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n17 Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 \r\n(Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.10. \r\n(g) except for bottles, teats, pacifiers and nipple shields, contain \r\nappropriate instructions in Urdu for the correct preparation in words \r\nand ea sily understood graphics, and indicate the ingredients, \r\ncomposition and analysis of a designated product, required storage \r\nconditions, batch number and expiry date, and contain any warning as \r\nmay be prescribed for the implementation of this Ordinance in \r\ncharacters of the prescribed height in Urdu or regional languages. \r\nCHAPTER IV \r\nINFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS \r\n9. Informational and educational materials .– (1) Any person who produces or \r\ndistributes any informational and educational materials referred in this section shall \r\nsubmit copies thereof to the Board as may be prescribed. \r\n(2) Informational and educational materials, whether written, audio or \r\nvisual, which refer to infant feeding shall contain only correct information and shall \r\nnot use any pictur es, graphics or text that encourage bottle -feeding or discourage \r\nbreast-feeding. \r\n(3) The \r\n18\r\n[Government] shall, in consultation with the Board, arrange for \r\nand approve the dissemination of objective and consistent informational and \r\neducational materials on i nfant and young child feeding, excluding medical literature \r\nand may, by notification in the official Gazette, publish such instructions , guidelines \r\nor policies as it d eems necessary or appropriate, for the purposes of producing and \r\ndistributing informational and educational materials. \r\n10. Health workers and health care facilities .– (1) Health workers shall \r\nencourage, support and protect breast -feeding. They shall be expected to know the \r\nprovisions of this Ordinance, in particular, any instructions, guidelin es or policies \r\npublished under section 9, and to implement the same whenever possible. \r\n(2) Health workers shall not accept or give samples of any designated \r\nproduct to any person, particularly pregnant women, mothers of infants and young \r\nchildren, or members of their families. \r\n(3) Health workers and their Associations shall not promote in any way \r\nwhatsoever, any designated product. \r\n(4) Health workers falling within the jurisdiction of the \r\n19\r\n[Government] shall \r\nmake in writing a report to the Board, \r\n20\r\n[****] any offer of a gift or other financial \r\nbenefit made by a manufacturer or distributor or any other contravention of the \r\nprovisions of this Ordinance or the rules, noticed by them. \r\n(5) There shall be kept posted in every health care facility in Urdu and \r\nEnglish, and in such other language as may be deemed appropriate by the health \r\n \r\n18Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n19Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n20The words “and in all other cases to a concerned Provincial Committee, ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding \r\nand Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinar y), dated \r\n11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.11. \r\ncare facility, such abstracts of this Ordinance as may be prescribed by the \r\n21\r\n[Government], \r\n22\r\n[****] for this purpose. \r\nCHAPTER V \r\nREGISTRATION OF DESIGNATED PRODUCTS AND QUALITY ASSURANCE \r\n11. Quality assurance.– (1) No designated product shall be manufactured, sold \r\nor otherwise distributed in \r\n23\r\n[the Punjab] unless it is formulated industrially in \r\naccordance with the standards r ecommended by the Codex Aliment arius \r\nCommission and the Codex C ode of Hygienic Practice for Foods for Infants and \r\nChildren, and in addition, shall meet such applicable standards specified in this \r\nOrdinance and the rules. \r\n(2) The Board \r\n24\r\n[****] may require an inspector or any other person \r\ninvested with powers under this Ordinance to test any designated product sold in \r\n25\r\n[the Punjab] in order to determine whether it is fit for human consumption. \r\n(3) A designated product that does not meet the standards for use in the \r\ncountry of manufacture shall not be sold in \r\n26\r\n[the Punjab]. \r\n(4) A designated product that has reached the expiry date shall not be \r\nmarketed, sold or distributed. \r\n(5) A designated product shall be sold only in the original container in \r\norder to prevent quality deterioration, adulteration or contamination thereof. \r\n12. Investigation and inspection .– (1) The \r\n27\r\n[Government] may designate any \r\nnumber of persons professionally qualified with respect to infant and young child \r\nnutrition as Inspector to conduct inspection and investigation and prosecution for the \r\npurposes of this Ordinance, and to monitor compliance with the provisions of this \r\nOrdinance. \r\n(2) After an inspection for purpose of this Ordinance, an Inspector shall \r\nrefer the case, and if so required, provide one portion of the sample of a designated \r\nproduct, or the whole of a designated product if it is such that it cannot be divided, to \r\nthe Board \r\n28\r\n[****]. \r\n \r\n21Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n22The words “or a Provincial Government, as the case may be, ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary ), dated 11.2.2012, \r\npages 40153-40155, s.11. \r\n23Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 \r\n(Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.12. \r\n24The words “ or a Provincial Committee, as the case may be, ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11 .2.2012, \r\npages 40153-40155, s.12. \r\n25Substituted for the word “Pakistan” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 \r\n(Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.12. \r\n26Ibid. \r\n27Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n28The words “ or a Provincial Committee, as the case may be ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, \r\npages 40153-40155, s.13. \r\n13. Investigation and filing of a case .– (1)Upon completion of an investigation \r\nand receipt of a complete report, and after giving the concerned party an opportu nity \r\nof being heard, the Board \r\n29\r\n[****] shall recommend to the \r\n30\r\n[Government] whether or \r\nnot to institute prosecution under this Ordinance. \r\n(2) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this \r\nOrdinance except on a report in writing by an officer authorized by the \r\n31\r\n[Government], or any other person as the \r\n32\r\n[Government] may, by notification in the \r\nofficial Gazette, authorize in this behalf. \r\n(3) An offence punishable under this Ordinance shall be non-cognizable. \r\n14. 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Revocation or suspension of license, etc.– (1) Where any person, except a \r\nmedical practitioner, has been found to have con travened any of the provisions of \r\nthis Ordinance or the rules, the concerned authority upon written recommendation of \r\nthe Board \r\n35\r\n[****] and after giving such person an opportunity of being heard, may \r\nrecommend to the \r\n36\r\n[Government] to suspend or cancel, his license for the practice of \r\nhis profession or occupation, or for the pursuit of his business. \r\n(2) In the case of a contravention involving a medical practitioner \r\nregistered under the Medical and Dental Council Ordinance, 1962 (XXXII of 1962), \r\nthe matter s hall be referred to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council for further \r\naction. \r\n \r\n29The words “ or a Provincial Committee, as the case may be, ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012 , \r\npages 40153-40155, s.14. \r\n30Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n31Ibid. \r\n32Ibid. \r\n33The words “or a Provincial Committee ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.15. \r\n34The words “ or a Provincial Committee, as the case may be, ” omitted by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child \r\nNutrition (Amendm ent) Act 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.201 2, \r\npages 40153-40155, s.15. \r\n35Ibid., s.16. \r\n36Substituted for the word “Federal Government” by the Punjab Protection of Breast -Feeding and Child Nutrition (Amendm ent) \r\nAct 2012 (Act XVI of 2012); and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 11.2.2012, pages 40153-40155, s.2. \r\n17. 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