The Authority may in writing exempt any medicine or substance from any or all provisions of the Act, subject to conditions (MASCA s.75)
Section 75 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act empowers MCAZ to exempt, in writing and subject to any conditions it specifies, any medicine or substance from the operation of any or all provisions of the Act; this is the legal basis for 'Section 75 authorisations' to import unregistered products.
- The power is expressed for 'any medicine or substance'; 'medicine' is defined in s.2 'subject to section seventy-five' as any substance used in diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease. Condoms and gloves are controlled through regulations made under ss.38 and 74, and neither the Act nor the device regulations state whether s.75 authorisations are issued for devices.
Effective from 1997-08-01
Section 2: 'βmedicineβ, subject to section seventy-five, means any substance or mixture of substances which is used, or is manufactured, sold or represented as suitable for use, inβ (a) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of disease or any abnormal physical or mental state or the symptoms thereof in man or in animals; or (b) restoring, correcting or modifying any physical, mental or organic function in man or in animals;'.

