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Prohibition of import after expiry of potency. —No biological or other special product specified in Schedule C or C (I) shall be imported after the date shown on the label, wrapper or container of the drug as the date up to which the drug may be expected to retain a potency not less than, or not to acquire a toxicity greater than, that required, or as the case may be, permitted by the prescribed test. 1* * * * * 30AA. Import of new Homoeopathic medicine.—(1) No new Homoeopathic medicine shall be imported except under and in accordance with the permission in writing of the Licensing Authority. (2) The importer of a New Homoeopathic medicine when applying for permission shall produce before the Licensing Authority such documentary and other evidence as may be required by the Licensing Authority for assessing the therapeutic efficacy of the medicine including the minimum provings carried out with it. 2[Explanation. —For the purpose of this rule, ‘New Homoeopathic Medicine’ means— (i) a Homoeopathic medicine which is not specified in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India or United States of America or of the United Kingdom or the German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia; or (ii) which is not recognized in authoritative Homoeopathic literature as efficacious under the conditions recommended; or (iii) a combination of Homoeopathic medicines containing one or more medicines which are not specified in any of the Pharmacopoeias referred to in clause (i) as Homoeopathic medicines and also not recognized in authoritative Homoeopathic literature as efficacious under the conditions recommended.] 3[30-B. Prohibition of import of certain drugs. ___ No drug, the manufacture, sale or distribution of which is prohibited in the country of origin, shall be imported under the same name or under any other name except for the purpose of examination, test or analysis.] 4[31. Standard for certain imported drugs.—No drug shall be imported unless it complies with the standard of strength, quality and purity, if any, and the test prescribed in the Rules shall be applicable for determining whether any such imported drug complies with the said standard: Provided that the drugs intended for veterinary use, the standards of strength, quality and purity, if any, shall be those that are specified in Schedule F(1) and the test prescribed in that Schedule shall be applicable for determining whether any such imported drug complies with the said standards and where no standards are specified in Schedule F(1) for any veterinary drug, the standards for such drug shall be those specified in the current edition, for the time being in force, of the British Pharmacopoeia Veterinary: ___________________________________________________________________