Act No. 13, 2003 MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT, 2003 (i) Homeopathy; (ii) Western herbal medicine; (iii) African traditional medicine; or (iv) Chinese herbal medicine; “controlled chemical” means a chemical declared to be a controlled chemical under section 44(1)(dd); “controlled equipment” means equipment declared to be controlled equipment under section 44(1)(dd); “Council” means the Namibia Medicines Regulatory Council referred to in section 2; “dentist” means a dentist as defined in the Medical and Dental Professions Act, 1993 (Act No. 21 of 1993); “dispense”, in relation to a medicine, means to ­ (a) prepare; (b) count out, measure or decant from a bulk supply; (c) mix; (d) dissolve; or (e) disperse, and dispose of, a medicine, for gain or otherwise, for the treatment of a particular person or animal, but does not include the actual administration of the medicine, and “dispensing” has a corresponding meaning; “emergency medicine” means medicine needed for immediate relief of a symptom or needed for procedures in a practice, but does not include medicine for a patient to take away; “essential drugs” means medicines listed in the prevailing Namibian Essential Drugs List published by the Ministry responsible for health; “export” includes to deliver or supply within Namibia for dispatch to a destination outside of Namibia; “health facility” means a health facility as defined in the Hospitals and Health Facilities Act, 1994 (Act No. 36 of 1994) or in the Veterinary and Para-veterinary Professions Proclamation, 1984 (Proclamation No. AG 14 of 1984); “hospital” means a hospital as defined in the Hospitals and Health Facilities Act, 1994 (Act No. 36 of 1994); “immediate container”, in relation to a medicine or a scheduled substance, means a container which is in direct contact with the medicine or the scheduled substance, but is not a package liner; “importer” means a person who brings a medicine, a scheduled substance, a controlled chemical, controlled equipment or a medical device into Namibia or causes a medicine,