54 No. 3 of 2013] Act No. 24 of 2009 Act No. 31 of 1997 Act No. 31 of 1997 Medicines and Allied Substances (a) dissolving or dispensing a product in, or diluting or mixing it with, some other substance for purposes of administering it; or (b) the incorporation of a medicine in any animal feed; “ marketing authorisation ” means the authorisation granted, under section thirty-nine, for the placement of a medicine or allied substance on the market; “ medical device ” includes an instrument, apparatus, component, part or accessory manufactured or sold for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state or the symptoms of the disease, or abnormal physical state in human beings or animals; “ medical doctor ” means a person registered as a medical doctor under the Health Professions Act, 2009; “ medicine ” means human medicine, veterinary medicine, medicinal product, herbal medicine or any substance or mixture of substances for human or veterinary use intended to be used or manufactured for use for its therapeutic efficacy or for its pharmacological purpose in the diagnosis, treatment, alleviation, modification or prevention of disease or abnormal physical or mental state or the symptoms of disease in a person or animal; “ medicinal product ” means any substance or combination of substances which may be administered to human beings or animals in order to make a medical diagnosis or to restore, correct or modify the physiological functions in human beings or animals; “ member ” means a person appointed as a member of the Board under section seven; “ midwife ” means a person registered as a midwife under the Nurses and Midwives Act, 1997; “ nurse ” means a person registered as a nurse under the Nurses and Midwives Act, 1997; “ package ” means anything in or by which any medicine, herbal medicine, therapeutic substance or allied substance is enclosed, covered or contained, and includes primary and secondary packaging; “ pharmaceutical licence ” means the licence issued, under section thirty-four, to a person to manufacture, distribute or deal in a medicine or allied substance; “ pharmacist” means a person registered as a pharmacist