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Guidelines & Codes

New Zealand Regulatory Guidelines for Medicines

Volume 1:  Guidance notes for applicants for consent to distribute new and changed medicines and related products

Note:  For the Regulatory Guidelines relating to Pharmacovigilance please refer to Section 19 of the 5th Edition below.

Note:  The Regulatory Guidelines have not been updated to reflect the new fees and forms applicable from 1 July 2009.  Please see the fees and forms pages on the website for the most up to date information.

Edition 6.5
October 2009

Guidance notes for applicants for consent to distribute new and changed medicines and related products comprising Parts A to G and references

Single PDF version (this is a large document so may take some time to download)
(Adobe PDF document 2,356 KB)
Index to Parts A to G
Summary of Changes
Part A - When is an application for approval
of a new or changed medicine required?
Microsoft Word document 3,538 KB
Part B - What sort of application for approval is required? Microsoft Word document 3,448 KB
Part C - Requirements for application types Microsoft Word document 3,692 KB
Part D - Guides to preparing the content
of your application
Microsoft Word document 4,158 KB
Part E - Templates, declarations and checklists Microsoft Word document 5,373 KB
Part F - Medsafe’s evaluation procedures Microsoft Word document 3,590 KB
Part G - Resources Microsoft Word document 3,444 KB
References Microsoft Word document 58 KB
   

5th Edition

(October 2001 - SUPERSEDED)

Guidance notes for applicants for consent to distribute new and changed medicines and related products (October 2001)
[Note: this is a 280-page (5,620KB) Word document so may take some time to download]
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Online version (Windows Help file 493KB)
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