WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (PROTECTION) ACT - 1958 (NO. 41 OF 1958)

• Section - 1 - Short Title

  • This Act may be cited as the World Health Organisation (Protection) Act, 1958.

• Section - 2 - Improper Use Of WHO Emblem Or Name Prohibited.

  • It shall not be lawful for any person, without the authority of the Minister responsible for health, to use for any purpose whatsoever any of the following, that is to say:-
    
    (a) the design in the Schedule to this Act which is the official seal and emblem of the World Health Organisation, or
    
    (b) the designation "World Health Organisation" or any abbreviation of that designation.

• Section - 3 - Penalties.

  • If any person contravenes the provisions of the foregoing section he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and to forfeit any goods upon or in connection with which the seal, emblem or designation was used.