Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Rules of Practice and Procedure

Marginal note:Signed notice of hearing

• 15 (1) Proceedings are initiated by issuance of a notice of hearing signed by the Secretary.

• Marginal note:Personal service

  (2) A notice of hearing must be served personally on the respondent, all concerned ministers and on any other person that the Board may direct, in accordance with Rule 11.

• Marginal note:Statement of allegation or notice of application

  (3) A notice of hearing must be accompanied by

  • (a) in the case of an allegation of a patented or protected medicine sold at an excessive price, a statement of allegation set out in consecutively numbered paragraphs containing the material facts, the allegations and the order sought by Board Staff in the proceeding; or

  • (b) in the case of an allegation of a failure to provide information and documents related to a patented or protected medicine, a notice of application set out in consecutively numbered paragraphs containing a statement of the relief sought by Board Staff, the grounds for the relief and the material facts on which Board Staff intends to rely.