Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 (Cth)

Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 11 June 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Amendment (2020 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020.

2Commencement

1. (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 2020.	1 July 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

1. (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.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Act 1989.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Regulations 2018

1

Subparagraph 7(1)(a)(i)

Omit “$1,490”, substitute “$1,520”.

2

Subparagraph 7(1)(a)(ii)

Repeal the subparagraph.

3

Subparagraph 7(1)(a)(iii)

Omit “$1,670”, substitute “$1,700”.

4

Paragraph 7(1)(b)

Omit “$7,270”, substitute “$7,410”.

5

Subparagraph 7(1)(c)(i)

Omit “$1,140”, substitute “$1,160”.

6

Subparagraph 7(1)(c)(ii)

Repeal the subparagraph.

7

Subparagraph 7(1)(c)(iii)

Omit “$860”, substitute “$880”.

8

Subparagraph 7(2)(a)(i)

Omit “$1,490”, substitute “$1,520”.

9

Subparagraph 7(2)(a)(ii)

Repeal the subparagraph.

10

Subparagraph 7(2)(a)(iii)

Omit “$1,670”, substitute “$1,700”.

11

Paragraph 7(2)(b)

Omit “$7,270”, substitute “$7,410”.

12

Subparagraph 7(2)(c)(i)

Omit “$1,140”, substitute “$1,160”.

13

Subparagraph 7(2)(c)(ii)

Repeal the subparagraph.

14

Subparagraph 7(2)(c)(iii)

Omit “$860”, substitute “$880”.

15

Paragraph 7(3)(a)

Omit “$680”, substitute “$690”.

16

Paragraph 7(3)(b)

Omit “$6,760”, substitute “$6,890”.

17

Paragraph 7(4)(b)

Omit “$630”, substitute “$640”.

18

Paragraph 7(4)(c)

Omit “$920”, substitute “$940”.

19

Paragraph 7(4)(d)

Omit “$1,180”, substitute “$1,200”.

20

Paragraph 7(4)(e)

Omit “$680”, substitute “$690”.

21

After subsection 7(4)

Insert:

1. (4A)

   However, for the purposes of subsection 4(1B) of the Act, the annual charges in respect of the inclusion of the following kinds of medical devices (other than medical devices produced for export) in the Register under Chapter 4 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 that has effect at any time during the charge year that starts on 1 July 2020 are as follows:

   1. (a)

      for a Class IIa medical device, or Class IIb medical device, that is a listed prosthesis within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (No. 1) 2020 as in force on 8 April 2020—$470;

   2. (b)

      for a Class AIMD medical device, or Class III medical device, that is a listed prosthesis within the meaning of the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses) Rules (No. 1) 2020 as in force on 8 April 2020—$600.

22

Paragraphs 7(5)(a), (b) and (c)

Omit “$4,680”, substitute “$4,770”.

23

Paragraph 7(5)(d)

Repeal the paragraph.

24

Paragraph 7(5)(e)

Omit “$4,680”, substitute “$4,770”.

25

Subparagraph 7(5)(f)(i)

Omit “$163,600”, substitute “$166,800”.

26

Subparagraph 7(5)(f)(ii)

Omit “$8,050”, substitute “$8,210”.

27

Paragraphs 7(5)(g) and (h)

Omit “$7,040”, substitute “$7,180”.

28

Paragraph 7(5)(i)

Omit “$13,800”, substitute “$14,100”.

29

Subsection 7(6) (note 1)

Omit “$99,900”, substitute “$101,800”.

30

Paragraph 8(2)(a)

Omit “$4,140”, substitute “$4,220”.

31

Paragraph 8(2)(b)

Omit “$3,360”, substitute “$3,430”.

32

Paragraph 9(1)(a)

Omit “$16,400”, substitute “$16,700”.

33

Paragraph 9(1)(b)

Omit “$13,400”, substitute “$13,700”.