No. 23

Traditional and Alternative Medicine

2002

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(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), the Minister
may:
(a) regulate the practice oftraditional and alternative health;
(b) prescribe ethics and standards of conduct for the traditional and
alternative health practitioners or aides;
(c) amend or vary any Schedule to this Act;
(d) regulate the sale and storage of traditional and alternative medicine remedies.
(e) prohibit or restrict the use or sale of any traditional or alternative
medicine remedy;
(t) establish or strengthen the national medicinal plants databank or
compendiums;
(g) prepare the national approved list of medicinal plants;
(h) regulate the manufacture, importation, exportation distribution
and labeling of traditional medicines remedy and other related
products.
(i) provide regulations for registration of traditional and alternative
remedies, methods and equipment;
U) provide regulations and prescribe guidelines on matters related
to formal training of traditional medical knowledge;
(k) provide for use of titles , descriptions, abbreviations and dosages;
(1) subject to the provisions of the Patents Act, 1987, provide for
matters related to patenting of traditional medicine inventions.
(m) prescribing qualifications, which shall be recognized as entitling
the holder to registration or enrolment under this Act;
(n) prescribing the conduct of ad-hoc Committees; and
(0) prescribing anything which, in the opinion of the Minister, is
incidental or conducive to the exercise of the functions and
powers of the Council, the Committee or Minister as provided
for under this Act.

Act No. I
of 1987

FIRST SCHEDULE
Made under section 5(6)

PROCEDURES OF THE MEETINGS
1.-( I) The Council shall ordinarily meet at such times and places as it deems necessary for

transaction of its business, but shall meet at least once every three months.
(2) The Chairman or in his absence, the Vice-Chairman, may at any time call an extra ordinary
meeting of the Council, upon a written request by a majority of the members in office;

Meeting of
the
Council

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