30 AUGUST 2007

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 96

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Dated this 23rd day of August 2007.

ANTHONY HILL, Deputy Director-General, Sector Accountability and Funding Directorate (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).

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Provisional Consent to the Distribution of a New Medicine

Pursuant to section 23 of the Medicines Act 1981, the Minister of Health hereby provisionally consents to the sale, supply or use in New Zealand of the new medicine set out in the Schedule hereto:

Schedule

Product:
Clopine

Active Ingredient:
Clozapine 50mg/mL

Dosage Form:
Oral suspension

New Zealand Sponsor:
Douglas Pharmaceuticals Limited

Manufacturer:
Douglas Manufacturing Limited, Lincoln, Auckland

Note: This consent is given subject to the following conditions:

• The medicine may only be prescribed by:
  – registered medical practitioners as defined in the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 who are certified by the Medical Council of New Zealand as competent in the scope of practice of psychiatry; and
  – medical practitioners employed as registrars in the branch of psychiatry who are under the supervision of persons of the kind referred to above.
• Persons prescribing the medicine must comply with appropriate local treatment guidelines.
• The medicine must be dispensed in accordance with appropriate local dispensing guidelines.
• Sale or marketing of this medicine may only occur if:
  – the sponsor has an appropriate blood monitoring and patient record database in place; and
  – the sponsor creates or participates in a central “red flag” database identifying patients who have previously been prescribed clozapine and who developed adverse drug reactions, which mean further use is contraindicated.

Note: This consent is valid for two years from the date of publication of this notice.

Dated this 23rd day of August 2007.

ANTHONY HILL, Deputy Director-General, Sector Accountability and Funding Directorate (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on the 6th day of July 2001).

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Justice

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of August 2007.

HON. MARK BURTON, Minister of Justice.

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Oaths and Declarations Act 1957

Officers of the Western Bay of Plenty District Council Authorised to Take Statutory Declarations

Pursuant to section 9 of the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957, I hereby authorise the holders for the time being of the offices in the service of the Western Bay of Plenty District Council specified in the Schedule below to take statutory declarations under the said Act.

I also hereby revoke all such previous authorisations granted to officers of the Western Bay of Plenty District Council under this Act.

Schedule

Western Bay of Plenty District Council

• Chief Executive
• Group Manager Regulatory
• Group Manager Corporate and Customer
• Group Manager Engineering
• Group Manager Policy and Planning
• Team Leader Democracy Services

Resource Management Act 1991

Appointments of Environment Commissioner and Deputy Environment Commissioners

Pursuant to section 254 of the Resource Management Act 1991, Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to appoint

David John Bunting, of Wellington

to be an Environment Commissioner; and

Kenneth Donald Fyfe Fletcher, of North Canterbury
David Kernohan, of Carterton

to be Deputy Environment Commissioners, all for periods of five years commencing on and from 23 August 2007.\n
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of August 2007.

MICHAEL CULLEN, Attorney-General.

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