4. Meaning of “medicinal product” and related expressions

use by being administered to one or more human beings or animals for a medicinal purpose;

use as an ingredient in the preparation of a substance or article which is to be administered to one or more human beings or animals for a medicinal purpose.

treating or preventing disease;

diagnosing disease or ascertaining the existence, degree or extent of a physiological condition;

contraception;

inducing anaesthesia;

otherwise preventing or interfering with the normal operation of a physiological function, whether permanently or temporarily, and whether by way terminating, reducing or postponing, or increasing or accelerating, the operation of that function or in any other way.

in the course of the business of the manufacturer or on behalf of the manufacturer in the course of the business of laboratory or research established carried on by another person;

solely by way of a test for ascertaining what effects it has when so administered; and

in circumstances where the manufacturer has no knowledge of any evidence that those effects are likely to be beneficial to those human beings, or beneficial to, or otherwise advantageous in relation to, those animals, as the case may be, and which (having been so manufactured) is not sold, supplied or exported for use wholly or mainly in any way not fulfilling all the conditions specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).

substances used in dental surgery for filling dental cavities;

bandages and other surgical dressings, except medicated dressings where the medication has a palliative or

substances and articles of such other description or classes as may be specified by order made by the Minister.

they are manufactured to the same specification;

they are, are to be, sold, supplied, imported or exported in the same pharmaceutical form.

any purposes for which medicinal products of that description can with reasonable safety be used;

any purposes for which such products cannot be so used; and

any effects which such products when used, or when used in any particular way referred to in the document, advertisement or representation, produce or are intended to produce.