Section 2

“Board” means the Pharmacy Board established under section 3;

“dangerous drug” means any drug or substance which is for the time being comprised in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs

Act 1952 [Act 234] or any corresponding schedule to any other written law relating to dangerous drugs in force in Malaysia;

*NOTEThis Act is applicable to the Federal Territory of Labuan-see Federal Territory of Labuan

(Extension and Modification of the Registration of Pharmacists Act 1951) Order 2009 [P.U. (A) 421/2009]

w.e.f. 27 November 2009 and Sarawak–see State of Sarawak (Extension and Modification of the

Registration of Pharmacists Act 1951) Order 2009 [P.U. (A) 425/2009] w.e.f. 4 December 2009.

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“fully registered pharmacist” means a person fully registered under section 6B;

“person” does not include a body corporate;

“poison” means any article deemed to be a poison within the meaning of the Poisons Act 1952 [Act 366], or of any other written law relating to poisons in force in Malaysia;

“provisionally registered” means provisionally registered under section 6;

“public services” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 132 of the

Federal Constitution and, in addition, it also means the service of any local authority or the service of any statutory authority exercising powers vested in it by federal or State law, and the expression

“public service” shall be construed accordingly;

“registered pharmacist” means a provisionally registered pharmacist under section 6 or a fully registered pharmacist under section 6B, as the case may be;

“therapeutic substance” means any substance which may be prescribed by the Board to be a therapeutic substance for the purpose of this Act:

Provided that where any written law dealing with therapeutic substances is in force in Malaysia no substance shall be so prescribed unless it is a therapeutic substance within the meaning of such written law.