Tēnā koe Nadine,

Thank you for emailing the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry).

We acknowledge receipt of your request under the Official Information Act
1982. 

This has been forwarded onto the relevant business unit to respond to. 

The Ministry may publish the response to your request on our website, you
can expect that if your OIA is to be published that this will take place
at least 10 working days after it has been sent you. Your name and any
other personal information will be withheld under Section 9(2)(a) (protect
the privacy of natural persons). 

You can expect a response by 17 October 2025.

Ngā mihi nui,

 

Ministerial Services

   

Communications and Ministerial Services | Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture [1]justice.govt.nz

 

 

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Tēnā koe Nadine

 

Thank you for your email of 20 September 2024, requesting information
under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), regarding the Medicines
Amendment Bill.

 

The Ministry has transferred your request in full to the Ministry of
Health (MOH), as the information to which your request relates is not held
by us but is believed to be held by the MOH. In these circumstances, we
are required by section 14 of the Act to transfer your request.

 

You will hear further from the MOH concerning your request in due course.
Contact can be made by email to: [1][email address].

 

If you are not satisfied with this response or the way the Ministry has
managed your request, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman under section 28 of the Act. The Office of the Ombudsman may be
contacted by phone on: 0800 802 602, by email at:
[2][email address], or via the webform: [3]Make a complaint
(for members of the public) | Ombudsman New Zealand.

 

 

Ngā mihi nui | Kind regards,

   

Ministerial Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
Level 4 Justice Centre | Aitken Street

DX Box SX 10088 | Wellington

[4]www.justice.govt.nz

 

 

From: [Ministry of Justice request email] <[Ministry of Justice request email]>
Sent: Monday, 22 September 2025 8:35 a.m.
To: Nadine Connock <[FOI #32351 email]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Consistency with the New
Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: Medicines Amendment Bill (ref: 126171)

 

Tēnā koe Nadine,

Thank you for emailing the Ministry of Justice (the Ministry).

We acknowledge receipt of your request under the Official Information Act
1982.

This has been forwarded onto the relevant business unit to respond to.

The Ministry may publish the response to your request on our website, you
can expect that if your OIA is to be published that this will take place
at least 10 working days after it has been sent you. Your name and any
other personal information will be withheld under Section 9(2)(a) (protect
the privacy of natural persons).

You can expect a response by 17 October 2025.

Ngā mihi nui,

 

Ministerial Services

   

Communications and Ministerial Services | Corporate Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture [5]justice.govt.nz

 

 

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Kia ora Nadine

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act), received by the Ministry of Health on 23 September 2025. You
requested:

 

In a document dated 19 May 2021, legal advice LPA 01 01 24, addressed to
Hon David Parker Attorney-General, your Ministry stated the following:

6. Several medicines have been approved under section 23 including the
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. An issue has risen as to whether these consents
have been validly issued.

Please provide an explanation as to what this issue was, and why it was
believed consents were not validly issued.

7. The Bill amends the Principal Act to:

a) remove the requirement that provisional consent under section 23 be on
a restricted basis for the treatment of a limited number of persons; and

b) retrospectively validate certain existing provisional consents that
have been granted under section 23 of the Medicines Act; including consent
for the Pfizer vaccine.

Please provide the legal counsel that confirmed the requirement for these
amendments and the reasons why they were recommended.

 

The reference number for your request is H2025073095. As required under
the Act, the Ministry will endeavour to respond to your request no later
than 20 working days after the day your request was
received: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/

 

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch ([2][email address]).

 

 

Ngā mihi 
 
OIA Services Team 
[3]Ministry of Health information releases 

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Tēnā koe Nadine

 

Your below email has been passed back to the Ministry of Justice for
response.

 

Your Official Information Act request largely relates to details
surrounding the Medicines Amendment Bill and the Medicines Act 1981, and
the Ministry of Health are responsible for these pieces of legislation.

 

As already advised, the information to which your request relates is not
held by us but is believed to be held by the MOH. We are required by
section 14 of the Act to transfer your request.

 

 

 

Ngā mihi nui | Kind regards,

   

Ministerial Services

Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
Level 4 Justice Centre | Aitken Street

DX Box SX 10088 | Wellington

[1]www.justice.govt.nz

 

 

 

 

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From: Nadine Connock <[2][FOI #32351 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 23 September 2025 13:29
To: OIA Requests <[3][email address]>
Subject: Re: Acknowledgement of your request for official information,
ref: (H2025073095) CRM:0461318

 

Dear OIA Requests,

Please advise why you have transferred this request to the Ministry of
Health, when the request relates to legal counsel the Ministry of Justice
provided?

Yours sincerely,

Nadine Connock

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