National Health (Concession Card or Entitlement Card Fee) Determination 2021 (Cth)

National Health (Concession Card or Entitlement Card Fee) Determination 2021 (PB 133 of 2021)

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

Dated 8 December 2021

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

5  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

6  Fee payable to approved pharmacists etc. for issuing card....................................................... 2

Schedule 1—Repeals  2

National Health (Concession card or entitlement card fee) Determination 2012 (PB 102 of 2011)              2

1  Name

(1)This instrument is the National Health (Concession Card or Entitlement Card Fee) Determination 2021.

(2)This instrument may also be cited as PB 133 of 2021.

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 January 2022.	1 January 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 84HA 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.

5  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the National Health Act 1953.

safety net concession card means a safety net concession card issued under section 84DA of the Act.

pharmaceutical benefits entitlement card means a pharmaceutical benefits entitlement card issued under section 84E of the Act.

6  Fee payable to approved pharmacists etc. for issuing card

(1) For the purposes of section 84HA of the Act, the fee payable for the issue of a card of a kind mentioned in subsection (2) is $10.65.

(2)  The kinds of cards are:

(a)  a safety net concession card;

(b)  a pharmaceutical benefits entitlement card; and

(c)  an additional or replacement card for a kind of card mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

Schedule 1—Repeals

National Health (Concession card or entitlement card fee) Determination 2012 (PB 102 of 2011)

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument