STATUTORY RULES.
1959. No. 4.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1958.*
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 NationalHealthAct 1953-1958.
Dated this 24th day of January,
1959.
W. J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd) Donald A. Cameron
Minister of State for Health.
Amendments of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)
Regulations.
Commencement.
1. These
Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of February, 1959.
Pharmaceutical benefits that may be prescribed
only for specified diseases or purposes.
2. Regulation 11
of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by
omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures “48, 49, 50, 51” and inserting in
their stead the figure “49”.
Writing of prescriptions.
3. Regulation 17
of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the figures “, 21, 111”; and
(b) by
inserting in paragraph (a) of
sub-regulation (4.), after the word “Director-General” (second occurring) the
words “or by an officer of the Commonwealth Department of Health who is a
medical practitioner authorized for the purpose by the Director-General”.
Supply of pharmaceutical benefit before surrender
of written prescription.
4. Regulation 21
of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by
inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “Director-General”, the words
“or by an officer of the Commonwealth Department of Health who is a medical
practitioner authorized for the purpose by the Director-General”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th January 1959.
Statutory Rules 1956, No. 54, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956,
No. 75; 1957, Nos. 25 and 52; and 1958, Nos. 23 and 42.
195/59.—Price 3d. 9/15.1.1959.
First Schedule.
5. The First Schedule to the National Health
(Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting item 7;
(b) by omitting item 11 and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
“11 | Penicillin,
Benzathine with Penicillin, Procaine, and Penicillin, Potassium”;
(c) by omitting item 15 and inserting in its stead the
following item:—
“15 | Smallpox
Vaccine”;
(d) by omitting items 47, 65, 66, 67, 78, 84,
93, 96 and 100;
(e) by omitting item 105 and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
“105 | Penicillin,
Benzyl”;
(f) by omitting
item 116 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“116 | Penicillin,
Phenoxymethyl”;
(g) by omitting items 122, 153, 154, 156 and
164; and
(h) by omitting item 171 and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
“171 | Menaphthone”.
Second Schedule.
6. The Second
Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is
amended—
(a) by adding at the end of item 12, in the
column headed “Disease or Purpose”, the following words:—
“Neuro-myelitis optica
Optic neuritis following Removal of tumors of
the brain
Nephrotic syndrome”;
(b) by omitting
items 48, 50, 51 and 65; and
(c) by omitting item 72 and inserting in its stead the
following item:—
“72
| Dextran
Iron............................
| The treatment of
patients unable to take oral iron”.
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By Authority: A. J. Arthur,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.