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VIII: Discipline
Complaints against Medical Practitioners 85 Notification of convictions
85. Notification of convictions---Unless the court expressly orders
otherwise in any particular case, the registrar of a court in New
Zealand in which a person whom the registrar knows to be a medical
practitioner is convicted of---
(a) An offence punishable by imprisonment for a term of 3 months or
longer; or
(b) An offence against the Health Act 1956, the Medicines Act 1981,
the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, the Accident Rehabilitation and
Compensation Insurance Act 1992, the Contraception,
Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977, the Births, Deaths, and
Marriages Registration Act 1995, or the Coroners Act 1988---
shall send a notice of the conviction to the president.
Cf. 1968, No. 46, s. 56A; 1983, No. 40, s. 8
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