New Zealand Acts

MEDICINES ACT 1981 - SECT 4

4 Meaning of therapeutic purpose

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
"therapeutic purpose" means any of the following purposes, or a purpose in connection with any of the following purposes:

a) preventing, diagnosing, monitoring, alleviating, treating, curing, or compensating for, a disease, ailment, defect, or injury; or

b) influencing, inhibiting, or modifying a physiological process; or

c) testing the susceptibility of persons to a disease or ailment; or

d) influencing, controlling, or preventing conception; or

e) testing for pregnancy; or

f) investigating, replacing, or modifying parts of the human anatomy.

History: Section 4: replaced, on 1 July 2014, by section 7 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 141).