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.