Act No. 13, 2003 MEDICINES AND RELATED SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT, 2003 “public” includes a section of the public concerned with manufacturing, dispensing, selling or administering, or the issue of prescriptions for, medicines or scheduled substances; “public need and interest” means the health care needs and interests of the greater Namibian community in respect of availability and equitable access to health care services; “Public Service Act” means the Public Service Act, 1995 (Act No. 13 of 1995); “register” ­ (a) when used as a noun, means the medicines register or veterinary medicines register or complementary medicines register, or any other register kept in terms of section 17; and (b) when used as a verb, means enter in a register referred to in paragraph (a); “registered nurse” means a registered nurse as defined in the Nursing Professions Act, 1993 (Act No. 30 of 1993); “Registrar” means the Registrar of Medicines appointed in terms of section 6; “regulation” means a regulation made under this Act; “scheduled substance” means any medicine or substance classified as a Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule 3, Schedule 4 or Schedule 5 substance in terms of section 29(1); “sell” means sell by wholesale or retail, and includes import, offer, advertise, keep, expose, transmit, consign, convey or deliver for sale or authorise, direct or allow a sale, or prepare or possess for purposes of sale, and barter or exchange or supply or dispose of to a person, whether for a consideration or otherwise, and “sale” and “sold” have a corresponding meaning; “staff member” means a staff member as defined in the Public Service Act; “this Act” includes a regulation made under it; “unscheduled medicine” means a medicine which is not classified in terms of section 29(1); “veterinarian” means a person registered as such under the Veterinary and Para-veterinary Professions Proclamation, 1984 (Proclamation No. AG. 14 of 1984); “veterinary medicines” means a substance or a mixture of substances, other than farm feed as defined in the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947), used or purporting to be suitable for use or manufactured or sold for use in connection with ­ (a) the diagnosis, treatment, prevention or cure of a disease, an infection or other unhealthy condition in animals; (b) the maintenance or improvement of health, growth, production or working capacity in animals; or (c) restoring, correcting or modifying a somatic or organic function, or for correcting or modifying behaviour, in animals; “veterinary medicines committee” means the committee referred to in section 12(1);