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

STATUTORY RULES.

1963. No. 69.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1962.*

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 Act 1953-1962.

Dated this Seventh day of August, 1963.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS. 

1. Regulation 15 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Medical practitioners excepted from the authorization conferred by section 93.

“15. A medical practitioner who is practising his profession on a ship is not authorized to supply pharmaceutical benefits under section 93 of the Act.”.

Obtaining of benefits by medical practitioners for the purpose of section 93.

2. Regulation 16 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “medical practitioner” (first occurring) the words “, other than an approved medical practitioner,”.

Payment for pharmaceutical benefits supplied for the purpose of section 93.

3. Regulation 18 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “Act” the words “on an order given under regulation 16 of these Regulations and”.

4. After Regulation 18 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations the following regulation is inserted in Part IV.:—

Benefits by approved medical practitioners for the purpose of section 93.

“18A.—(1.) An approved medical practitioner shall obtain a pharmaceutical benefit for the purpose of section 93 of the Act otherwise than by lodging with an approved pharmaceutical chemist an order under regulation 16 of these Regulations.

“(2.) An approved medical practitioner who obtains a pharmaceutical benefit for the purpose of section 93 of the Act shall furnish to the Director-General a notification of his having obtained the benefit, signed by the medical practitioner, in accordance with a form authorized by the Director-General.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th August, 1963.

  Statutory Rules 1960, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1960, Nos. 90 and 102; 1962, Nos. 59 and 137; and 1962, Nos. 34 and 101.

3796/63.—PRICE 3D. 9/15.5.1963.

 

“(3.) An approved medical practitioner who furnishes a notification under the last preceding sub-regulation shall retain a copy of the notification for a period of not less than one year from the date on which the notification is so furnished.

Penalty: Ten pounds.

“(4.) An approved medical practitioner who has obtained a pharmaceutical benefit for the purpose of section 93 of the Act in accordance with these Regulations and has furnished a notification under sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation with respect to that benefit is, upon furnishing to the Director-General a claim in accordance with a form made available by the Director-General to approved medical practitioners for the purpose, being a claim, duly completed and furnished in accordance with the directions on such a form, entitled to payment from the Commonwealth in respect of that pharmaceutical benefit at the rate applicable in the case of the supply of the like benefit on an order under regulation 16 of these Regulations.”.

 

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