S.L. 437.116 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 437.  S.L. 437.106.    Cap. 464.  Cap. 31.  S.L. 437.106.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Veterinary Services Act;

"Director" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Act;

"licence" means a veterinary pharmacy licence issued in accordance with article 62 of the Act;

"licensed veterinary establishment" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Private Veterinary Establishments (Licensing) Regulations;

"managing pharmacist" means the pharmacist managing the pharmacy referred to in article 63(1)(d) of the Act;

"narcotic drugs" means the substances present on the Yellow List established by the International Narcotics Control Board in accordance with the Protocol of 25 March 1972 amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961;

"pharmacist" means a person who is enlisted in the

Register of Pharmacists kept by the Pharmacy Council in accordance with article 17 of the Health Care Professions Act;

"premises" means the premises used for, or in connection with, any premises licensed by the Director to carry out the business of a veterinary pharmacy;

"psychotropic drugs" means the substances listed in the

Third Schedule to the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance and those substances listed on the Green List prepared by the International Narcotics Control Board in accordance with the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, as amended from time to time;

"Regulation (EU) 2019/6" means Regulation (EU) 2019/ 6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/82/EC;

"relocation" means the transfer of a veterinary pharmacy premises from a physical premises within a locality to another physical premises within the same or different locality, upon the approval of the Director;

"Single Convention" means the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs adopted at New York on the 30th March 1961, as subsequently amended by the Protocol adopted in Geneva on the 25th March, 1972;

"suitably learned person" means any person included in the Register for the Professions and Trades Supplementary to the Veterinary Profession mentioned in the Act who can dispense veterinary medicinal products of category OTC under the supervision of a veterinary surgeon or pharmacist and dispense others of category GS without this supervision;

"veterinary consultancy practice" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Private Veterinary Establishments (Licensing) Regulations;

"veterinary medicinal products" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on veterinary medicinal products and repealing Directive 2001/ 82/EC;

"veterinary pharmacy" means any premises licensed in accordance with article 62 of the Act in which any veterinary medicinal product is kept or from where it is sold, dispensed or supplied directly to the public by retail but shall not include dispensing of treatments from veterinary establishments and dispensing during out calls by veterinary surgeons;

"veterinary surgeon" means a person who has a warrant granted in accordance with article 43 of the Act.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, words and phrases used in these regulations which are not defined herein shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act: Provided that words and phrases used in these regulations which are not defined herein nor in the Act shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in Regulation (EU) 2019/6.