NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 30

Teriparatide

Travoprost
Valdecoxib
Valganciclovir

Schedule 3

Pharmacy-only Medicine
Levocetirizine; for oral use

Dated this 6th day of March 2002.

G. R. BOYD, Chief Advisor, Safety and Regulation (pursuant
to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 20 February
1997).

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Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

Medical Practitioners Who May Prescribe, Administer, or Supply Controlled Drugs for the Purpose of Treating People With Drug Dependence

Pursuant to section 24 (5) (a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, Dr David George Chaplow, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify that:

Dr Kenneth Gordon Couper, in practice at Flagstaff Medical Centre, River Road, Hamilton, Waikato 2001

is a medical practitioner who may prescribe, administer, or supply controlled drugs for the purposes of that section, with the following conditions:

(a) Except in the course of his employment at Waikato District Health Board’s Community Alcohol and Drug Service, his prescribing of controlled drugs for the treatment of opioid dependence is limited to methadone;

(b) The prescription of methadone for the treatment of dependence is limited to patients registered at Dr Couper’s practice who have been assessed as requiring methadone treatment for opioid dependence by a gazetted methadone service; and

(c) Dr Couper’s authorisation of other medical practitioners to prescribe controlled drugs for the treatment of opioid dependence is limited to designated locums working in his practice, and then only to his patients, and with his permission in writing.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of March 2002.

DR DAVID CHAPLOW, Director of Mental Health.

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Nurses Act 1977

Appointments to the Nursing Council of New Zealand

Pursuant to section 4 (1) of the Nurses Act 1977, I appoint

Noeline Warmington
section 4 (1) (a)

Meretene Hammond
section 4 (1) (a)

Margaret Southwick
section 4 (1) (c)

and reappoint

Brenda Hall
section 4 (1) (a)

as members of the Nursing Council of New Zealand for 3-year terms of office commencing on 1 April 2002 and expiring on 1 April 2005; and I appoint

Hope Tupara
section 4 (1) (b)

and, pursuant to section 4 (1) of the Nurses Act 1977, intend to reappoint

Jean Patterson
section 4 (1) (b)

Sandy Grey
section 4 (1) (d) (ii)

as members of the Nursing Council for 2-year terms of office commencing on 1 April 2002 and expiring on 1 April 2004.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2002.

ANNETTE KING, Minister of Health.

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Internal Affairs

Marriage Act 1955

Marriage Celebrants for 2002 Notice No. 22

Pursuant to the provisions of section 11 of the Marriage Act 1955, the following names of marriage celebrants within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

Crampton Smith, Tracey Fay, 2 Fawcett Street, South Dunedin.
Hays, Elizabeth Gay, 20 Riverside Drive, Whakatane.
Marriott, Wayne Peter, 98 Parkers Road, Nelson.
Pont, Edith Gay, 32 Sutcliffe Street, Dunedin.
Yot, Susan, 3A Sunrise Avenue, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga.

Dated at Lower Hutt this 22nd day of March 2002.
B. E. CLARKE, Registrar-General.

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Marriage Celebrants for 2002 Notice No. 23

Pursuant to the provisions of section 13 of the Marriage Act 1955, it is hereby notified that the following names have been removed from the list of marriage celebrants under section 10 of the Act:

Bishara, Joseph Richard, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Blyde, David Thomas, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Chase, Arama George, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Collier, Sonny, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Dennis, Randall Williams, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Duncan, Michael Ian, Baptist.
Faauli, Pele, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.