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MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES
CONTROL ACT, 2003
Delegation of powers, and assignment of duties and functions
Regulations
Exemptions
Transitional provisions
Repeals, amendments and savings
Short title and commencement
SCHEDULE - LAWS REPEALED OR AMENDED
BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Namibia as follows:
Definitions
1.
(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates
“advertisement”, in relation to a medicine or a scheduled substance, means a written, a
pictorial, a visual or other descriptive matter or verbal statement or reference
(a)
appearing in a newspaper, a magazine, a pamphlet or other publication;
(b)
broadcast on television or radio;
(c)
distributed to members of the public; or
(d)
brought to the notice of members of the public in any manner,
which is intended to promote the sale of that medicine or scheduled substance, and
“advertise” has a corresponding meaning;
“analyst” means an analyst to whom authority has been granted under section 37;
“animal” means animal as defined in the Animal Diseases and Parasites Act, 1956 (Act
No. 13 of 1956);
“appeal committee” means the appeal committee referred to in section 34(1);
“authorised prescriber” means a medical practitioner, a dentist, a veterinarian or a person
authorised to prescribe a medicine under section 31(1) or (2);
“certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration issued in terms of section
19(7)(b), 20(4)(b) or 21(4)(c);
“chairperson” means the person elected as chairperson of the Council in terms of section
7(1);
“committee” means a committee established by the Board under this Act;
“complementary medicine” means a substance or a mixture of substances prepared and
used or purported to be suitable for use in
(a)
the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, modification, or prevention, of a disease, abnormal
physical or mental state, or the symptoms thereof, in humans or animals; or
(b)
restoring, correcting or modifying any somatic, psychic or organic function in
humans or animals,
in accordance with the principles of any of the following disciplines: