9 MARCH 2006

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 22

519

Product:
Flucoran

Active Ingredient:
Fluconazole 200mg

Dosage Form:
Capsule

New Zealand Sponsor:
Douglas Pharmaceuticals Limited

Manufacturer:
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India

Product:
Flucoran

Active Ingredient:
Fluconazole 50mg

Dosage Form:
Capsule

New Zealand Sponsor:
Douglas Pharmaceuticals Limited

Manufacturer:
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India

Dated this 3rd day of March 2006.

DON MATHESON, Deputy Director-General, Public Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).

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Classification of Medicines

Pursuant to section 106 (1) of the Medicines Act 1981,
I, Don Matheson, Deputy Director-General, Public Health
Directorate, acting under delegated authority, hereby declare
that the medicines listed in the Schedule to this notice are
classified as prescription medicines.

Every reference to a medicine in this notice applies whether
the medicine is synthetic in origin or is from biological or
mineral sources.

Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference
applies also to medicines that are:

(a) preparations and admixtures containing any
proportion of any substance listed in the notice.

(b) salts and esters of any substance listed in the notice.

(c) preparations or extracts of biological materials listed
in the notice.

(d) salts or oxides of elements listed in the notice.

Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference
to a medicine applies:

(i) if the medicine is in an injection or eye preparation,
to any concentration of that medicine; and

(ii) if the medicine is not in an injection or eye
preparation, only if the concentration of the medicine
or the concentration of the total active principles of
the medicine is greater than 10 milligrams per litre
or per kilogram.

Where any reference is modified by a statement of the
strength of the medicine, the strength is calculated using
the free acid, base, alcohol or element unless specifically
stated otherwise.

Schedule

Prescription Medicines

Adrafinil

Cetuximab

Darifenacin

Deferasirox

Quinine; except in medicines containing 50 milligrams or
less per recommended daily dose

Tigecycline

Medicines for General Sale

Please note that the following medicines are no longer
classified as prescription medicines, restricted medicines or
pharmacy-only medicines. As such, they are now available
for general sale.

Icodextrin

Quassia

Quinine; in medicines containing 50 milligrams or less per
recommended daily dose

Dated this 7th day of March 2006.

DON MATHESON, Deputy Director-General, Public Health
Directorate

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New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000

Appointments to the Northern X and Upper Southern A Regional Ethics Committees

Pursuant to section 11 of the New Zealand Public Health
and Disability Act 2000, I appoint

Adina Halpern

as chairperson of the Northern X Regional Ethics
Committee for a term of office commencing from the date
of this publication in the New Zealand Gazette and ending
29 November 2007; and appoint

Dr Vanya Kovach

as an ethicist member of the Northern X Regional Ethics
Committee for a three-year term of office commencing from
the date of this publication in the New Zealand Gazette; and
appoint

Dr Jane Kerr

as a health researcher member to the Upper Southern
A Regional Ethics Committee for a three-year term of office
commencing from the date of this publication in the
New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of February 2006.

PETE HODGSON, Minister of Health.

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Justice

Law Practitioners Act 1982

Notice of Order for Strike Off of a Practitioner’s Name

CIV-2006-485-54

In the matter of the Law Practitioners Act 1982

Pursuant to section 119 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982,
notice is hereby given that on 28 November 2005, the
New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
ordered as follows: