Cap. 458 Art. 5Legal personality of the Medicines Authority.

(1) The Medicines Authority shall be a body corporate having a separate and distinct legal personality and shall be capable, subject only to the provisions of this Act, of entering into any contract, of acquiring, holding and disposing of any kind of property both movable and immovable, of employing personnel for the purposes of its operations; and of suing and being sued, and to which any function or operation of government are or may be assigned under this or any other law.

(2) The legal and judicial representation of the Medicines Authority shall vest in the Chief Executive Officer: Provided that the Medicines Authority may appoint one or more of its officers or employees to appear in its name and on its behalf in any judicial proceedings or in any act, contract, instrument or other document whatsoever.