Section 71: Interpretation.

In this Act -
"approved" means approved by the Council;
"article" includes -
(a) any drug, poison, medicine or medical consumables;
(b) anything used for the manufacture, preparation, preservation, packaging or storing of any drug poison or medical device;
(c) any labeling or advertising material relating to or for use in connection with any drug, poison or medical device;
(d) records and books required to be kept under this Act; or
(e) electronic records, receipts, invoices and other relevant documents;
"Associate Member" means students in accredited faculties or schools of pharmacy;
"Collaborative Drug Therapy Monitoring (CDTM)" means a team approach to healthcare delivery, that seeks to maximise the expertise of the pharmacist and the physician in order to achieve optimal patient care outcomes through appropriate medication use and enhanced patient care services;
"chain retail pharmacy" means a number of registered pharmaceutical premises as specified by regulation bearing same name, engaged in retail pharmaceutical practice and owned by body corporate or pharmacist;
"community pharmacy" means a health care facility that provides pharmaceutical services to people in a local area or community;
"Council" means the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria established under section 1 of this Act;
"court" means the Federal High Court;
"dangerous drugs" means any drug to which the provisions of Dangerous Drugs Act apply;
"dispensing" means to prepare, to count out, measure or decant from a bulk supply, mix, dissolve, or disperse, and dispose the drug, for gain or otherwise for the treatment of a particular person or animal but does not include the actual administration of the drug;
"drugs or medicines" include any substance of vegetable, animal or mineral origin or any preparation or mixture, which is used for internal or external application in -
(a) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of any disease disorder, abnormal physical state, or the symptoms in man or in animals;
(b) restoring, correcting or modifying organic functions in man or in animals;
(c) disinfection, or the control of vermin, insects or pests; or
(d) contraception.
"DUR" means Drug Utilisation Review which is a process of a comprehensive review of medication profile by a pharmacist;
"ethical drugs" means drugs or medicines dispensed under the direct supervision of a licenced pharmacist"
"fees" include annual subscription, practicing fee, registration fees, renewal fees or inspection fees;
"forensic pharmacy" means study of pharmacy and drug laws as well as the application of pharmaceutical sciences and practice to legal matters;
"GMP" with reference to the functions of the Council means the inspection of pharmaceutical facilities for the purposes of licensure and revalidation of such licences;
"GPP" means good pharmaceutical practice in accordance with best global practices;
"hospital pharmacy" is the department, section or unit of the hospital or clinic that manage the procurement, storage, preservation, packaging, sterilisation, compounding, preparation, dispensing or distribution of medicine in the hospital or clinics;
"label" in relation to any food, drug, cosmetic, medical device or package includes any legend, word or mark attached to, included in, belonging to or accompanying that food, drug, cosmetic, medical device or package;
"medical devices and accessories" used in this Act include needles, syringes, gauze, cotton wools;
"members" mean persons with full registration status with Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN);
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Health;
"package" includes anything in which any food, drug, cosmetic or device is wholly or partly contained, wrapped, placed or packed;
"pharmacist" means any person who is registered and licensed to engage in pharmacy in Nigeria and whose name is in the register kept for such purpose by Pharmacy Council of Nigeria;
"pharmacy technician", means a person who has undergone a course of training for pharmacy technicians in a school of health technology or any other institution approved by the Council, duly registered and issued with an annual permit by the Council as a Pharmacy Technician;
"pharmaceutical activities" include dispensing, selling, distribution, storage, stocking, wholesaling or manufacturing of drugs and poisons;
"Pharmaceutical Inspection Officer or Inspector" means a registered pharmacist appointed or engaged by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria to carry out inspection on premises where pharmaceutical activities, operations and businesses are carried out;
"pharmaceutical care" means the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve and sustain a patient’s quality of life;
"pharmaceutical marketing and representation" means any activity undertaken or organised or sponsored by a company, distributor, or an importer that is promoting the prescription, recommendation, supply, sale or distribution of a pharmaceutical product;
"pharmaceutical or sales representatives" means persons involved in pharmaceutical marketing and representation;
"pharmacy practice" include giving of patient-centred care, provision of drug information, monitoring of drug therapy, discovery and evaluation of drugs, clinical interventions and provision of technical aspects of pharmaceutical services or business such as importation, exportation, mixing, compounding, preparing, dispensing, selling and distribution of drugs and poisons;
"poison" includes substances whether natural or synthetic, mixed with other ingredients or not, and whatever restrictions under the provisions of this Act are placed on any particular poison shall apply to it whether it is unmixed or is contained as an ingredient in some preparation, unless it is contained in one of the preparations specifically exempted from such provisions;
"practicing fee" means payment made by registered members of the profession to the Council;
"premises" means a place approved and registered by the Council for any of the following purposes of dispensing, selling, distribution, storage, stocking, retailing, wholesale, manufacturing, importation, exportation of drugs and poisons, herbal and dietary supplements, scientific offices or any other form of pharmaceutical activities;
"prescribed" means prescribed by the regulations;
"President" means President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
"profession" means pharmacy profession;
"provisional members" means persons with provisional registration status with Pharmacy Council of Nigeria and this include non-Nigerians and Nigerian citizens undergoing internship programmes;
"register" means any register maintained or required to be maintained in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
"Registrar" means the Registrar appointed under the provisions of this Act;
"regulation" means rules and regulations made under this Act;
"restricted drugs" means controlled and psychotropic substances as well as any drug to which the provisions of Dangerous Drugs Act apply;
"retention fees" means annual fees paid for the retention of names of persons or premises in their respective registers;
"satellite medicine facility" means a retail medicine facility established through an arrangement with a registered community pharmacy of not less than five years of existence in Nigeria, for the sole purpose of improving access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable pharmaceutical products and services in underserved communities and other areas the Council deems necessary;
"selling" includes offering for sale, hawking for sale and displaying for purpose of sale and in possession for sales or distribution
"Society" means the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; and
"Superintendent Pharmacist" means a registered and licenced pharmacist who applied for and through whom the registration of the pharmaceutical premises was procured and he exercises direct personal control and management of pharmaceutical activities carried on in the premises.