NATIONAL DRUG FORMULARY AND ESSENTIAL DRUG LIST ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA  

NATIONAL DRUG FORMULAR AND ESSENTIAL DRUG LIST ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List.
2. Prohibition of importation, etc., of drugs not in the List.
3. Importation, etc., of drugs not in the List.
4. Establishment of Review Committee and membership.
5. Functions of Review Committee.
6. Tenure of office of members of the Review Committee.
7. Pharmaceutical companies, etc.
8. Offences and penalties.
9. Monitoring of the List.
10. Removal of drug from the List.

11. Information for guidance of medical practitioners, etc.
12. Interpretation.
13. Short title.
First Schedule: The Essential Drugs List
Second Schedule: The Drug Formulary Index

NATIONAL DRUG FORMULARY AND ESSENTIAL DRUGS LIST ACT

An Act to prescribe a National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List and to prohibit importation into and manufacture in Nigeria of any drug not in the List.

[1989 No. 43.]

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[Commencement.] [13th December, 1989]

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1. National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List

There is hereby prescribed for the Federal Republic of Nigeria a National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List as specified in the First Schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to as “the List”).

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE LAWS OF NIGERIA (UPDATED TO 2018)