National Health (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2021 (Cth)

PB 69 of 2021

National Health (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2021

I, Mariana Crank, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following instrument.

Dated 21 June 2021

Mariana Crank

Acting Assistant Secretary
Pharmacy 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 (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement 2019  2

1  Name

(1)  This instrument is the National Health (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2021.

(2)  This instrument may also be cited as PB 69 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	1 July 2021.	1 July 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 100(2) 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement 2019

1  Section 4

Omit “1 September 2021”, substitute “1 September 2022”.

2  Section 5

Omit “30 June 2021”, substitute “30 June 2022”.

3  Paragraph 7(1)(a)

Omit “1 July 2021”, substitute “1 July 2022”.

4  Subparagraph 7(2)(a)(i)

Omit “1 July 2021”, substitute “1 July 2022”.

5  Paragraphs 7(3)(a) and 4(a)

Omit “1 July 2021”, substitute “1 July 2022”.

6  Subparagraph 20(b)(iv)

Omit “supplied;”, substitute “supplied.”.

7  Subparagraphs 20(b)(v) and (vi)

Repeal the subparagraphs.

8  Paragraph 20(c)

Repeal the paragraph.

9  At the end of Part 3

Add:

28  Application of amendments—National Health (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2021

The amendments of section 20 made by the National Health (Take Home Naloxone Pilot) Special Arrangement Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Instrument 2021 apply in relation to a claim for payment made on or after 1 July 2021 in respect of a special arrangement supply of a designated pharmaceutical benefit made before, on or after that date.