National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2021 (Cth)

PB 95 of 2021

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2021

I, Nikolai Tsyganov, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated 19 August 2021

Nikolai Tsyganov

Acting Assistant Secretary
Pricing and PBS Policy 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 (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021  2

1  Name

(1)  This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2021.

(2)  This instrument may also be cited as PB 95 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	20 August 2021.	20 August 2021

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 89A(3) 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 (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

1  Subsection 5(8) (at the end of the table)

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3	Listed drug: Estradiol Form: Tablet containing estradiol valerate 1 mg Manner of administration: Oral Brand: Progynova	Listed drug: Estradiol Form: Tablet 2 mg Manner of administration: Oral Brand: Zumenon
4	Listed drug: Estradiol Form: Tablet containing estradiol valerate 2 mg Manner of administration: Oral Brand: Progynova	Listed drug: Estradiol Form: Tablet 2 mg Manner of administration: Oral Brand: Zumenon