Act No. 13, 2003
MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES
CONTROL ACT, 2003
(s)
as to the transshipment or the importation into, or exportation from, Namibia
of a scheduled substance, and specifying the ports or places at which that
substance may be imported into, or exported from, Namibia;
(t)
authorising and regulating the transmission through Namibia of scheduled
substances;
(u)
authorising and regulating the possession by persons or groups of persons
entering, or departing from, Namibia of specified quantities of scheduled
substances for their own medicinal use;
(v)
relating to the importation, conveyance, keeping, storage, processing and
packing of medicines, and scheduled substances, and the manner in which
medicines and scheduled substances must be kept and controlled in different
categories of hospitals and health facilities;
(w) in consultation with the Minister responsible for the environment, relating
to the disposal or destruction of a medicine or a scheduled substance, and
the records which must be kept and the reports to be furnished in respect of
that medicine or that scheduled substance;
(x)
relating to the summary seizure and disposal of a scheduled substance found
in possession, or under the control, of a person not entitled under this Act to
keep or use it;
(y)
prescribing the methods in accordance with which samples may be taken
under this Act and the form of the certificates to be issued by inspectors in
respect of those samples;
(z)
prescribing the methods to be employed, and the form of the certificates to
be issued, in connection with the examination or analysis of samples of
medicines or scheduled substances, or of any other thing, taken under this
Act;
(aa)
prescribing, in consultation with the Minister responsible for finance
(i)
the fee payable to the Registrar in respect of the application
for registration, and in respect of the registration, of a medicine
or a medical device;
(ii)
the fee payable to the Registrar in respect of the retention of
the registration of a medicine or a medical device;
(iii) the fee payable for an authorisation granted in terms of section
27(1) for the sale of an unregistered medicine ;
(iv) any other fee payable in terms of this Act; and
(v)
the date on which a fee referred to in this paragraph is payable;
(bb) prescribing the registration, and the form and manner of the
registration, of medical devices;
(cc) regulating or prohibiting the registration, manufacture, modification,
importation, storage, transportation, sale, use or destruction of a
medical device or category of medical devices;