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Medicines Act 1981

Enforcement

84: Payment of expenses of analysis on conviction

You could also call this:

"Paying for medicine tests if you break the law"

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If you are found guilty of breaking a rule in the Medicines Act 1981, the court can order you to pay for the costs of testing the medicine. This includes fees and other expenses related to the analysis of the medicine. These costs are part of the total costs of the case against you and you can be made to pay them.

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Part 5Enforcement

84Payment of expenses of analysis on conviction

  1. Where any person is convicted of an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act, the court may order that all fees and other expenses incidental to the analysis of any medicine in respect of which the conviction is obtained shall be paid by the defendant.

  2. All such fees and expenses shall be deemed to be part of the costs attending the conviction, and shall be recoverable accordingly.

Compare
  • 1969 No 7 s 41
  • 1979 No 27 s 65