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Medicines Act 1981

Enforcement

87: Notification of conviction of practitioners, etc

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"When medical workers break the law, the court tells their organisation"

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If you are a veterinarian, doctor, pharmacist, nurse, optometrist, or other type of prescriber and you are found guilty of breaking a rule in the Medicines Act 1981, the court must tell certain people about it. The court must send details of what happened to the Registrar of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand if you are a veterinarian. The court must send details to the organisation in charge of your type of job if you are not a veterinarian.

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Part 5Enforcement

87Notification of conviction of practitioners, etc

  1. If a person who is a veterinarian, practitioner, pharmacist, nurse, optometrist, designated prescriber, or delegated prescriber is convicted of an offence against this Act or regulations made under it, the court must send particulars of the conviction to—

  2. the Registrar of the Veterinary Council of New Zealand, if the person is a veterinarian; or
    1. the responsible authority for the health profession to which the person belongs, in any other case.

      Notes
      • Section 87: replaced, on , by section 31 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 141).