STATUTORY RULES.
1958. No. 42.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1957.*
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
1953-1957.
Dated this eighteenth
day of
June ,
1958.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health.
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Amendments
of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)
Regulations
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the
first day of July, 1958.
Writing of prescription.
2. Regulation 17 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical
Benefits) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the word
and figures “or 44” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “, 44 or
71”.
Supply of
pharmaceutical benefits on prescriptions.
3. Regulation 20 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical
Benefits) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the word
and figures “or 44” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “, 44 or
71”.
Supply of
pharmaceutical benefit before surrender of written prescription.
4. Regulation 21 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical
Benefits) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulations (2.) and (4.)
the word and figures “or 44” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “,44
or 71”.
First Schedule.
5. The First Schedule to the National Health
(Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following item:—
“173 |
Chlorothiazide”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette
on 1958
Statutory Rules 1956, No. 54, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956,
No. 75; 1957, Nos. 25 and 52; and 1958, No. 23.
3748/58.—Price 3d. 9/9.6.1958.
Second Schedule.
6. The Second Schedule to the National Health
(Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting item 2 and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
“2
| Bemegride
.........................
| Antidote for barbiturate and other hypnotic poisons”;
|
(b) by omitting items 39 and 60; and
(c) by adding at the end thereof the following
items:—
“70
| Amiphenazole
Hydrochloride
| Antidote for barbiturate and other hypnotic poisons
|
“71
| Corticotrophin
.....................
| Status
asthmaticus
|
“72
| Saccharated Iron ..................
| The treatment
of patients unable to take oral iron
|
“73
| Sustanon .............................
| Mammary
carcinoma Castration
|
“74
| Puroverine ..........................
| Hypertensive
crises”.
|
By
Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.