STATUTORY RULES
1970 No.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1970.*
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 1953-1970.
Dated this third day of September, 1970.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Health.
Amendment of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the seventh day of September, 1970.
Fifth Schedule—Item 70.
2. Item 70 in the Fifth Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by omitting all the words (in the third column) from and including the words “The prevention of asthma” (first occurring) to the end of the item and inserting in their stead the words—
“The prevention of attacks of asthma in the case of a patient whose attacks of asthma have been sufficiently severe and frequent to interfere seriously with his normal activities of life and whose recurrences of asthma—
(a) were not controlled by adequate use of bronchodilators and other recognised methods of prevention and treatment; or
(b) required the continuous use of corticosteroid therapy.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970.
† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1960, Nos. 90 and 102; 1961, Nos. 59 and 137; 1962, Nos. 34, 101 and 114; 1963, Nos. 34, 69 and 107; 1964, Nos. 12, 57 and 135; 1965, Nos. 51, 151 and 152; 1966, Nos. 80 and 144; 1967, Nos. 67, 116 and 158; 1968, Nos. 44, 76, 88 and 146; 1969, Nos. 44, 107 and 185; and 1970, Nos. 39 and 94.
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