National Health (Transitional Arrangements for Opioid Dependence Treatment Medicines) Amendment (Extension) Special Arrangement 2023 (Cth)

PB 124 of 2023

National Health (Transitional Arrangements for Opioid Dependence Treatment Medicines) Amendment (Extension) Special Arrangement 2023

I, David Laffan, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following special arrangement.

Dated   23 November 2023  

David Laffan

Assistant Secretary
Pharmacy Branch
Technology Assessment and Access Division
Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

National Health (Transitional Arrangements for Opioid Dependence Treatment Medicines) Special Arrangement 2023   2

1  Name

(1)  This instrument is the National Health (Transitional Arrangements for Opioid Dependence Treatment Medicines) Amendment (Extension) Special Arrangement 2023.

(2)  This instrument may also be cited as PB 124 of 2023.

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 December 2023.	1 December 2023

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Transitional Arrangements for Opioid Dependence Treatment Medicines) Special Arrangement 2023

1  Section 3

Omit “1 March 2024”, substitute “1 October 2024”.

2  Section 5

Omit “30 November 2023”, substitute “30 June 2024”.

3  Paragraph 7(1)(a)

Omit “1 December 2023”, substitute “1 July 2024”.

4  Paragraph 7(2)(a)

Omit “1 December 2023”, substitute “1 July 2024”.

5  Subsection 17(1)

Omit “1 December 2023”, substitute “1 July 2024”.