National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1967*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Health Act 1953-1967.

Dated this fourth day of July, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) A. J. FORBES

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 

Repeat authorizations.

Regulation 26 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting before the word “prepare” in paragraph (a)of sub-regulation (1.) the words “upon or before supplying the pharmaceutical benefit,”;

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (f) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “at the time the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied”;

(c) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the words—

“Penalty: Twenty dollars.”; and

(d)by omitting sub-regulations (2.) and (3.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) An approved pharmaceutical chemist is not authorized to supply a pharmaceutical benefit upon presentation of the duplicate of a prescription unless—

(a)there is surrendered to him a repeat authorization duly related to the duplicate prescription by a number or numbers and indicating that the pharmaceutical benefit to be supplied has not been supplied for the number of times directed in the prescription;

(b) he writes his name on the repeat authorization;

(c) any numbered authority for the prescription issued under regulation 13 or regulation 14 of these Regulations is produced to him or, if the prescription does not authorize any further supply of the pharmaceutical benefit, is surrendered to him; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1960, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1960, Nos. 90 and 102; 1961, Nos. 59 and 137; 1962, Nos. 34, 101 and 114; 1963, Nos. 34, 69 and 107; 1964, Nos. 12, 57 and 135; 1965, Nos. 51, 151 and 152; and 1966, Nos. 80 and 144.

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(d)the date appearing on the duplicate as the date on which the prescription was written is a date not more than six months before the presentation of the duplicate.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra