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,