COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
National Health Act 1953
PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS
DECLARATION UNDER SUBSECTION 85 (2AA)
No. PB 2 of 1997
I, DAVID TREVOR GRAHAM, Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Department of Health and Family Services and Delegate of the Minister for Health and Family Services, having in accordance with subsection 85 (2AB) of the National Health Act 1953 obtained the advice of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, pursuant to subsection 85 (2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, hereby make the following Declaration:
1. This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 February 1997.
2. The drugs and medicinal preparations specified in the Schedule to this Declaration shall cease to be drugs and medicinal preparations to which Part VII of the National Health Act 1953 applies.
THE SCHEDULE
Benzathine Penicillin with Procaine Penicillin and Benzylpenicillin Potassium
Bifonazole
Clotrimazole
Econazole Nitrate
Ergometrine Maleate
Miconazole Nitrate
Sulfamethizole
Lemon Syrup B.P.
Siberian Fir Oil B.P.C. 1949
Wool Alcohols B.P.
Dated this thirteenth day of January 1997.
D. GRAHAM
Assistant Secretary
Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch
Department of Health and Family Services
Delegate of the Minister for Health and Family Services