Act No. 13, 2003
MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES
CONTROL ACT, 2003
a scheduled substance, a controlled chemical, controlled equipment or a medical device
(in this definition called goods) to be brought into Namibia, and includes a person who
(a)
owns the goods brought into Namibia;
(b)
carries the risk for the goods brought into Namibia;
(c)
represents to be the one who brought the goods into Namibia or who owns those
goods;
(d)
actually brings the goods into Namibia;
(e)
is beneficially interested in any way in the goods brought into Namibia; or
(f)
acts on behalf of a person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e),
and “import” and “importation” have a corresponding meaning;
“inspector” means a person authorised as an inspector under section 35;
“interchangeable multi-source medicine” means medicine that contains the same quantities
of the same active substances in the same dosage form and meets comparable standards
as another medicine;
“international treaties” means treaties relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances to which Namibia is a party;
“label”, when used as a verb, means brand, mark or otherwise designate or describe, and
when used as a noun, means a brand or a written, a pictorial or other descriptive matter
appearing on or attached to an article or the package containing an article, and referring
to the article;
“legal practitioner” means a legal practitioner as defined in the Legal Practitioners Act,
1995 (Act No. 15 of 1995);
“manufacture” means carry out operations including purchasing of material, processing,
packaging, quality control, release and storage of medicinal products and related
substances, and “manufacturing” has a corresponding meaning;
“manufacturer”, means a person who manufactures or on whose direction manufacturing
takes place;
“medical device” means any instrument, appliance, material, machine, apparatus, implant
or diagnostic reagent used or purported to be suitable for use for medical or veterinary
purposes, and includes a part or an accessory of a medical device;
“medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner as defined in the Medical and Dental
Professions Act, 1993 (Act No. 21 of 1993), or a medical intern as defined in that Act;
“medicinal purpose”, in relation to a scheduled substance, means for the purpose of the
treatment or prevention of a disease or some other definite curative or therapeutic purpose,
but does not include the satisfaction of a habit, or the relief of a craving for the substance
used or for any other such substance, except where the substance is administered or used
under a programme approved for this purpose by the Minister;
“medicine” means
(a)
a substance or a mixture of substances used or purported to be suitable for use or
manufactured or sold for use in
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