Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “Board” means the Board of Examiners appointed under section 5 of this Act; “Belize City” means all that part of Belize City contained within the prescribed line as laid down in any statutory instrument made under the Belize City Council Act, Cap. 85, and within a distance of five hundred yards beyond such line. “chemist and druggist” means any person who sells or keeps open shop for retailing, dispensing or compounding drugs or “Council for Human and Social Development” means the body of the Caribbean Community empowered by Article 35 of the Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community including the Caricom Single Market and Economy to establish common standard and measures for accreditation or mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of qualification of nationals of Caricom Member States; 7 “drug” includes medicine, compound medicine and medicinal preparation; “poison” means the articles named and described in the First Schedule and any other article or articles which the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, declare to be included in the said Schedule, Provided that no article so declared shall be deemed to be a poison until the expiration of one month from the date of such publication; the expiration of one month from the date of such “recognised pharmaceutical school” means any pharmaceutical school which the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, decide to treat as such for the purposes of this Act; “Register” means the “Chemists and Druggists Register” kept under section 12 of this Act;