Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 89

                   A person is not entitled to receive a pharmaceutical benefit unless it is supplied:

                     (a)  by an approved pharmacist, at or from premises in respect of which the pharmacist is for the time being approved, on presentation of a prescription written by a PBS prescriber in accordance with this Act and the regulations, or, in such circumstances as are prescribed, on communication to that pharmacist, in the prescribed manner, of a prescription of a PBS prescriber; or

Note:       Sometimes the person will still be entitled to receive the pharmaceutical benefit if the pharmacist is approved later. See subsection 99(3B).

                     (b)  in accordance with the provisions of section 92, section 93, section 93A or section 94.