100Power of court to restrict publication of name of medicine

1. Where, in the course of proceedings in any court or before a Coroner, reference is made to any medicine, the court or Coroner may in its or his discretion order that the name of that medicine shall not be published in relation to those proceedings at any time before the expiration of a period of 5 years from the date of the final disposal of those proceedings.

2. Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), no order made under that subsection shall apply to the publication of that name to scientists or to members of the legal, medical, dental, veterinary, nursing, or pharmaceutical professions, or to persons studying to become scientists or members of those professions, or to designated prescribers, or in any publication of a scientific or technical character intended solely or principally for circulation among scientists or members of those professions or persons so studying.

3. Where the publication of the name of a medicine is prohibited under this section in relation to any proceedings, no person shall, within the said period of 5 years, publish the name of that medicine or any name or particulars likely to lead to the identification of the description or class of medicine as the description or class of medicine to which the medicine referred to in those proceedings belonged.

4. Nothing in this section shall limit the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prohibition or regulation of the publication of reports or particulars relating to any judicial proceedings.

5. Every person commits an offence against this Act who contravenes subsection (3).

Compare

• 1960 No 97 s 43
• 1964 No 31 s 2
• 1979 No 27 s 78

Notes

• Section 100(2): amended, on 15 October 1999, by section 13 of the Medicines Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 117).