National Health (Medicines for Pensioners) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 82.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT 1948-1949.*

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Health Service Act 1948-1949.

Dated this  Thirty first

day of  August , 1953.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health

Amendments of the National Health (Medicines for Pensioners) Regulations.

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of September, 1953.

Definition.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Health (Medicines for Pensioners) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following definition:—

“‘the British Pharmacopoeia 1953’ means—

(a)the edition known as the 1953 edition of the book called the British Pharmacopoeia published under the direction of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom; or

(b)if that edition has been added to or amended—that edition as affected by the additions or amendments.”.

Pensioner benefits.

3. Regulation 7 of the National Health (Medicines for Pensioners) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.), after the words “British Pharmacopoeia”, the figures “1953”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

 Statutory Rules 1951, No. 63.

3114.—Price 3d.  9/27.7.1953.

The Schedule.

4. The Schedule to the Rational Health (Medicines for Pensioners) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

THE SCHEDULE.

Regulation 7.

PENSIONER BENEFITS ADDITIONAL TO THOSE COVERED BY MONOGRAPH IN THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA 1953.

The use in this Schedule, in relation to an item, of the letters “B.P. 1948”, “B.P.C.” or “A.P.F.” indicates that that item is to conform to the standards of purity required in respect of that item—

(a) by the edition known as the 1948 edition of the book called the British Pharmacopoeia published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom;

(b) by the latest edition for the time being of the book called the British Pharmaceutical Codex published by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, or, if that edition has been added to or amended, by that edition as affected by those additions or amendments; or

(c) by the latest edition for the time being of the book called the Australian and New Zealand Pharmaceutical Formulary published by the Australian and New Zealand Pharmaceutical Association or, if that edition has been added to or amended, that edition as affected by those additions or amendments,

as the case requires.

Where an item is not an item in relation to which the letters “B.P. 1948”, “B.P.C.” or “A.P.F.” are used, that item is to conform to the standards of purity required—

(a)by the edition of the book referred to in paragraph (b) of the last preceding paragraph, if the item occurs therein; or

(b) in any other case, by the edition of the book referred to in paragraph (c) of that paragraph.

Item No.	Drug or Preparation.
1	Acetonum
2	Acidum Hydrocyanicum Dilutum
3	Acidum Sulphuricum Dilutum
4	Aluminii Sulphas
5	Ammonii Bromidum
6	Aqua (Potable Water)
7	Aqua Anisi
8	Aqua Chlorbutolis
9	Argentoproteinum Mite
10	Caffeina Citrata
11	Ephedrinae Sulphas
12	Extractum Ergotae Liquidum B.P. 1948
13	Infusum Buchu
14	Infusum Senegae (Simple or Concentrated) B.P. 1948
15	Lanette Wax SX
16	Linimentum Aconiti B.P. 1948
17	Linimentum Belladonnae B.P. 1948
18	Liquor Ammoniae Aromaticus
19	Liquor Glycerylis Trinitratis
20	Magenta
21	Magnesium Phosphate, Tribasic
22	Oleum Citronellae
23	Oleum Cocois
24	Oleum Pini
25	Oxymel Scillae B.P. 1948

The Schedule—continued.

Item No.	Drug or Preparation.
26	Pilula Colocynthidis et Hyoscyami B.P. 1948
27	Pilula Digitalis Co., B.P.C.
28	Pilula Ferri Carbonatis B.P. 1948
29	Phenazonum B.P. 1948
30	Pix Carbonis
31	Potasii Chloras B.P. 1948
32	Sodium Oleatis, Acidum
33	Spiritus Chloroformi, Duplex
34	Strychnina
35	Syrupus Ferri Phosphatis Compositus B.P. 1948
36	Syrupus Glycerophosphatum Compositus A.P.F.
37	Syrupus Limonis Neutralis
38	Syrupus Ruber
39	Tabellae Hexoestrolis B.P. 1948
40	Tabellae Hydrargyri cum Greta B.P. 1948
41	Tabellae Oestroni B.P. 1948
42	Tabellae Phenazoni B.P. 1948
43	Tabellae Sodii Salicylatis B.P. 1948
44	Tabellae Theobrominae Compositae
45	Talcum Purificatum
46	Tinctura Gelsemii
47	Tinctura Lobeliae Aetherae
48	Tinctura Persionis
49	Tinctura Scillae B.P. 1948
60	Triethanolamina
51	Unguentum Gallae cum Opio
52	Xylenum

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.