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Medicines Act 1981

Dealings with medicines and medical devices

23BA: Protection of confidential supporting information supplied in application for consent by verification

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"Keeping secret information safe when applying for medicine approval"

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When you apply for consent by verification for a medicine, you might give the Minister some confidential information to support your application. The Minister must keep this information secret during a certain period. The Minister cannot use this confidential information to decide on other applications.

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Part 2Dealings with medicines and medical devices

23BAProtection of confidential supporting information supplied in application for consent by verification

  1. If the Minister receives an application for consent by verification and confidential supporting information, the Minister must, during the verification protected period in relation to that confidential supporting information,—

  2. take reasonable steps to ensure that that confidential supporting information is kept confidential to the Minister; and
    1. not use that confidential supporting information for the purposes of determining whether to grant any other application.

      Notes
      • Section 23BA: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 66).