ISSN 0796 - 028x REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA MEDICINES AND RELATED PRODUCTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2023
Supplement__“C” to The Gambia Gazette _No. of , 2023 Medicines and Related Products (Amendment) Act, 2023 2) THE GAMBIA NO.O% oF 2023 Assented to by The President, this | O'ay of october , 2023. @Q a sident Adama Barrow
Nedicines and Related roducts (Amendment) Act, 2023 MEDICINES AND RELATED PRODUCTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2023 : AN ACT to amend the Medicines and Related Products Act, 2014 to provide for the exemption of medicine and related products manufactured in countries having Stringent Regulatory Authorities and connected matters, ; ENACTED by the President and the National Assembly. [ | 1, Short title This Act may be cited as the Medicines and Related Products (Amendment) Act, 2023 2. Amendment of the Medicines and Related Products Act, 2014 The Medicines and Related Products Act, 2014 (In this Act referred to as “the Principal Act") is amended as set out in this Act. 3. Amendment of section 26 Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub- section (4) the following new sub-sections — “(5) Notwithstanding sub-section (4), the Agency may adopt a mechanism other than registration permitting a person to import, distribute, sell, supply, or exhibit for sale any medicine or related product manufactured or produced in a country the Agency considers to have a competent and trusted regulatory authority or institution (In this Act referred to as “a Stringent Regulatory Authority’). (6 The Agency, by Notice published in the Gazette — (a) shall list the countries it considers to have a Stringent Regulatory Authority; and (b) may amend the list of countries it considers to have a Stringent Regulatory Authority from time to time.”
Medicines and Related Products (Amendment) Act, 2023 D in the National Assembly this 21st day of September, in the year of Our Lord Twenty PASSE! wenty Three. M. A. Sise Clerk of the National Assembly. if THS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill "vic has passed in the National Assembly, and “ by me to be atrueand correct copy of the said Bill. M. A. Sise Clerk of the National Assembly.