Packaging for a blister pack

Packaging for a blister pack containing medication pills, which packaging comprises a container having a tray for receiving the blister pack and a lid hinged to the tray for movement between open and closed positions, each of the tray and the lid having a respective major area and a peripheral rim around the major area, each said rim projecting towards the other said rim whereby a blister pack disposed on the major area of the tray is enclosed between the tray and the lid when said lid is in its closed position and access can be gained to the pack when the lid is in its open position, said packaging further comprising a pin within the package and projecting from the major area of one of the tray and lid, the pin having a free end remote from said major area which said free end is configured to penetrate a blister pack, said pin being provided with at least one barb-like formation adjacent its free end whereby removal of a blister pack pushed on to the pin is resisted, the pin having a length greater than the distance between the major areas of the tray and lid when the lid is in its closed position and the major area of the other of the tray and lid having an aperture for receiving the free end of the pin when the lid is in its closed position whereby a blister pack placed on the tray when the lid is in its open position is forced on to the pin as the lid is moved to its closed position.