Act No. 13, 2003 MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT, 2003 manufactured, sold or administered, to furnish the Council, within a period specified in that notice, with information, which that person has in his or her possession or which that person is in a position to obtain regarding that medicine. (3) The Council may, if requested by a person to whom a notice under subsection (2) is addressed, extend the period specified in that notice. Publication or distribution of false advertisements concerning medicines 26. (1) A person may not ­ (a) publish, distribute or in any other manner bring to the notice of the public or cause to be published, distributed or to be brought to the notice of the public, a false or misleading advertisement concerning a medicine; or (b) in an advertisement claim that the therapeutic efficacy and effect of a medicine is other than that stated by the Council in terms of section 28(a)(ii) or state or suggest that a medicine should be used for a purpose, under a circumstance, or in a manner, other than that stated by the Council in terms of that section. (2) It is a sufficient defence in a prosecution for an offence under subsection (1)(a), if it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the accused, not being a person selling the medicine to which the false or misleading advertisement, which is the subject of the prosecution, relates, did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the advertisement was in any respect false or misleading, unless it is proved that the accused failed on demand by the Registrar, an inspector or a member of the Namibian Police, to furnish the name and address of the person on whose request or direction the advertisement was published, distributed or brought to the notice of the public. Council may authorise sale of unregistered medicine for certain purposes 27. (1) The Council may authorise a person, in writing, to sell a specified quantity of a particular medicine, which is subject to registration in terms of section 18, but is not registered, during a specified period and to a specified person or institution. (2) A medicine sold under the authority granted in terms of subsection (1) may be used for such purposes, in such manner and during such period, as the Council may determine in writing. (3) If effect is not given to a determination made in terms of subsection (2), or if the Council is of the opinion that the risks of selling a specified quantity of a particular medicine in terms of subsection (1), outweigh the potential benefits, the Council may at any time, in writing, withdraw any authority granted in terms of the said subsection (1). Council to cause certain information to be furnished 28. The Council must in such manner as it considers most suitable, and as soon as is practicable ­ (a) in relation to a medicine, which has been registered after the commencement of this Act, cause medical practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians, practitioners and the person who applied for the registration of that medicine to be informed ­ (i) of the name and number under which the medicine is registered and the conditions, if any, subject to which it is registered;