National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment Instrument 2018 (No. 2) (PB 8 of 2018) (Cth)

PB 8 of 2018

National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment Instrument 2018 (No. 2)

National Health Act 1953

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health, make this Instrument under subsection 88(1) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated              20/02/2018     

GREG HUNT

Minister for Health

1          Name of Instrument

(1)        This Instrument is the National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment Instrument 2018 (No. 2).

(2)        This Instrument may also be cited as PB 8 of 2018.

2          Commencement

This Instrument commences immediately after the commencement of Schedule 8 to the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits—Budget and Other Measures) Act 2018.

3          Authority

This Instrument is made under subsection 88(1) of the National Health Act 1953.

4          Schedule

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2012 (PB 71 of 2012)

1          Before subsection 9(1)

Insert:

(1A) For subsection 88(1) of the Act, a medical practitioner is authorised to write a prescription for the supply of any pharmaceutical benefit.

2          Section 9 (note)

Repeal the note.