Section 1: In this Act, unless a contrary intention appears—

"authorized pharmacopoeia" means the latest edition of United States Pharmacopoeia, British Pharmacopoeia, or European Pharmacopoeia; or International Pharmacopoeia; "Board" means the Pharmacy Board established by Section 2; "Class A drug" means a drug listed in Class A in the First Schedule to be sold or dispensed only by a pharmacist; "Class B drug" means a drug listed in Class B in the First Schedule to be sold or dispensed through pharmacies or drug stores; "Class C drug" means a drug listed in Class C in the First Schedule to be sold or dispensed through pharmacies or drug stores or patent medicine stores; "controlled cosmetic" means any cosmetic found to contain any drug which is listed in the First Schedule which may be dispensed only by a pharmacist or pharmacy technician, as the case may be; "cosmetic" means any substance or preparation intended to be applied to any part of the external surface of the human body (i.e.. hair, epidermis, nails, lips and external genital organs) or to the teeth or bucal or other mucosa wholly or mainly for the purpose of clearing, perfuming or protecting or keeping the parts in good condition or changing their appearance, or combating body odour or perspiration; "descriptive matter" means any statement, (whether written or oral) which purports to describe the composition or effect of any drug or reference to application of descriptive matter by way of advertisement on, or with the container in which the drug is supplied or in any other manner; "disease" includes injury and bodily or mental deficiency or abnormality; No. 12 Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001 3 "pharmacy technician" means a person registered in the Register of Pharmacy Technicians; "drug" means any substance or preparation used or intended to be used for internal or external application to the human or animal body either in the treatment or prevention of disease or for improving physiological functions and it includes nutritional agents and cosmetics; "drug store" means a store licensed under this Act for the sale or supply of Class B and C drugs; "health center" means a medical institution which is maintained by a Government Department, local authority or mission for the treatment of outpatients, and which is under the immediate supervision of an attendant approved by the Board; "Indian hemp" includes the dried flowering or fruiting tops of the pistillate plant known as *cannabis sativa or cannabis indica* from which the resin has been extracted, by whatever name such tops are called, resins from the base, and all extracts or tinctures obtained from such tops; "licensed body corporate" means a body corporate licensed under this Act; "medical institution" means a hospital, clinic, nursing home, or other institution at which human disease is treated; "Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for matters relating to health; "narcotic" means, subject to the provisions of section 64, a substance included in Part II of Class A in the First Schedule or a preparation containing any substance referred to in subsection (4) thereof; "nutritional agent" means the principal constituents of food substances, including amino acids, carbohydrates, fixed oils, trace elements, sweeteners, vitamins, alcohol, electrolytes, iron compounds and other substances with nutritional or medical value as listed in the First Schedule; 4 No. 12 Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001 "patent medicines seller" means a person licensed to sell Class C drugs only; "pharmacist" means a person holding a current certificate of registration issued under this Act, not being a suspended certificate; "pharmacy" means any premises employed under this Act for the carrying on of pharmacy business; "pharmacy business" includes a business which involves the sale of Class A, B and C drugs; "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act; "process of manufacture" means a process involving extraction, isolation, synthesizing, formulation or compounding a medical product or drug intended for human consumption or animal consumption; "proprietary drug" means a drug distributed for sale by retail under a brand name or other proprietary description and in a form ready for use; "Registrar" means the person appointed Registrar under Section 6; "speciality" means— (a) a simple drug which is not in the authorized pharmacopoeia; (b) a compound drug which contains any drug which is not in the authorized pharmacopoeia; or (c) a compound drug which contains no drug which is not in the authorized pharmacopoeia but which is compounded on a formula which is not in the authorized pharmacopoeia and was not, to the knowledge of the person wishing to manufacture, import or register the compound drug, in use in Sierra Leone immediately before the commencement of this Act. [illegible] 12 Pharmacy and Drugs Act 2001 5 PART II—THE PHARMACY BOARD [Margin: Establishment of Pharmacy Board.]