Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 93A

             (1)  In this section:

"prescribed institution" means:

                     (a)  a private hospital; or

                     (b)  a residential care service within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997 .

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, the Minister may determine:

                     (a)  the pharmaceutical benefits or classes of pharmaceutical benefits that may be supplied under this section to patients receiving treatment in prescribed institutions; and

                     (b)  the conditions under which such pharmaceutical benefits may be supplied to, and held by, prescribed institutions.

             (3)  A copy of each determination made by the Minister under subsection (2) is to be published in the Gazette .

             (4)  An approved supplier may supply to a prescribed institution, in accordance with determinations made under paragraph (2)(b), pharmaceutical benefits that are covered by a determination made under paragraph (2)(a).

             (5)  A medical practitioner may authorise a prescribed institution to supply pharmaceutical benefits covered by a determination made under paragraph (2)(a) to patients receiving treatment in the institution.

             (6)  Payment by the Commonwealth in respect of the supply of pharmaceutical benefits under this section is to be made as prescribed.