National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co-payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022 (Cth)

PB 63 of 2022

National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022

I, David Laffan, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following instrument.

Dated 24 June 2022

David Laffan

Assistant Secretary
Pharmacy Branch
Technology Assessment and Access Division
Department of Health

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

National Health (Closing the Gap – PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement 2016      2

1  Name

(1)  This instrument is the National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022.

(2)  This instrument may also be cited as PB 63 of 2022.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 July 2022.	1 July 2022

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Closing the Gap – PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement 2016

1  Subsection 6(3)

Repeal the subsection.

2  Part 2 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part 2—Application, saving and transitional provisions

Division 1—Transitional provisions relating to old Special Arrangement

3  Section 15

Omit “In this Part”, substitute “In this Division”.

4  At the end of the instrument:

Add:

Division 2—Amendment made by the National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022

19  Amendment made by the National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022

The repeal of subsection 6(3) of this instrument made by the National Health (Closing the Gap—PBS Co‑payment Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Continued Dispensing) Instrument 2022 applies in relation to the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit without a prescription for that supply in accordance with subsection 89A(1) of the Act on and after 1 July 2022.