[SUBSTITUTED BY CLAUSE (l) AND (la) WITH EFFECT FROM 01.01.2005]

2. Definitions and interpretation. –

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(l) “medicine or drug” includes—

(i) all medicines for internal or external use of human beings or animals,

(ii) all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of diseases in human beings or animals,

(iii) all substances intended to be used for or in the maintenance of public health, or the prevention or control of any epidemic disease among human beings or animals,

(iv) insecticides, germicides, fungicides, weedicides and all other substances intended to be used for the protection or preservation of plants;

(v) all chemical substances which are ordinarily used as intermediates in the preparation or manufacture of any of the medicines or substances above referred to;