Act No. 13, 2003 (b) MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT, 2003 if the person has appealed against a refusal of his or her application, until the decision of the appeal committee is communicated to him or her in terms of section 34(8). Repeals, amendments and savings 47. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the laws specified in the second column of the Schedule are repealed or amended to the extent set out in the third column of that Schedule. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) any notice, authorisation, order, approval or certificate issued, made or granted or any other thing done in terms of a provision of a law repealed by that subsection is, except in so far as may be otherwise required by this Act, deemed to have been issued, made, granted or done under the corresponding provision of this Act. Short title and commencement 48. This Act is called the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act, 2003, and comes into operation on a date to be determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette. SCHEDULE LAWS REPEALED OR AMENDED (Section 47(1)) No. and year of law Act No. 36 of 1947 Short title Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricul­ tural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 Extent of repeal or amendment (a) Amended by the substitution in the said Act, except in sections 1, 3(1), 7(2)(a), and 15(1)(a), (b) (c) and (d) for ­ (i) the words "stock remedy", wherever they occur, of the words "farm feed"; (ii) the words "fertilizers, farm feeds, agricultural remedies and stock remedies", wherever they occur, of the words "fertilizers, farm feeds and agricultural remedies"; (iii)the words "fertilizers, farm feeds, agricultural remedies or stock remedies", wherever they occur, of the words "fertilizers, farm feeds or agricultural remedies"; and (iv) the words "fertilizer, farm feed, agricultural remedy or stock remedy", wherever they occur, of the words "fertilizer, farm feed or agricultural remedy"; (b) Amended by the deletion ­ (i) in section (1), of the definition of "stock remedy"; (ii) in section 7(2)(a), of the words "or stock remedy"; (iii)of section 7(2)(b);