National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES

1973 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1972.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (4.) of section 101 of the National Health Act 1953-1972 that a drug or medicinal preparation that was not a pharmaceutical benefit under the National Health Act 1953-1958 immediately before the commencement of that sub-section shall not be prescribed as a pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with section 85 of that Act unless the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee has recommended to the Minister that it be so prescribed:

AND WHEREAS that Committee has recommended to the Minister that the following drugs and medicinal preparations be prescribed as pharmaceutical benefits under section 85 of the National Health Act 1953-1972, namely, the drugs and medicinal preparations specified in the Third Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations, as amended by the following Regulations, that had not previously been prescribed as pharmaceutical benefits:

NOW THEREFORE 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 1953-1972.

Dated this thirty-first day of January, 1973.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Minister of State for Health.

Amendments of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)
Regulations †

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of February, 1973.

First Schedule.

2. The First Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by omitting items 152, 173, 182, 256, 267, 280, 320 and 321.

Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Third Schedule.

4. The Third Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 243 the following item:—

" 243a. Norgestrel ".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette  1973.

† 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, 83 and 146; 1969, Nos. 44, 107 and 185; 1970, Nos. 39, 94, 119 and 186; 1971, Nos. 44, 101, 136 and 154; and 1972, Nos. 32, 121 and 205.

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Fifth Schedule.

5. The Fifth Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 118a the following item:—

THE SCHEDULE  Regulation 3

Amendments of the Second Schedule to the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations

1. After item 65 insert the following item—

2. After item 76 insert the following

3. After item 77 insert the following item—

4. After item 105 insert the following item —

5. After item 112 insert the following item—

6. After item 113 insert the following item—

7. After item 127 insert the following items—

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