New Zealand Acts

MEDICINES AMENDMENT ACT 2013 - SECT 7

7 New section 4 substituted

Section 4 is repealed and the following section substituted:

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.