NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1983 NO. 102 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Principal Regulations 2. Interpretation 3. 4. Repeat authorizations 5. Deferred supply authorization 6. Receipts 7. Schedule 7 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1 Principal Regulations 1. In these Regulations, "Principal Regulations" means the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations. 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2 Interpretation 2. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended- (a) by inserting after the definition of "approved pharmaceutical chemist" in sub-regulation (1) the following definitions: " 'concessional beneficiary' has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act; 'dependant', in relation to a concessional beneficiary, has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act;"; and (b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of "declaration". 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3 3. After regulation 19 of the Principal Regulations the following regulation is inserted: Information, &c., prescribed for the purposes of sub-section 84AA (1) and (2) of the Act "19A. (1) For the purposes of sub-section 84AA (1) and (2) of the Act, the following information is prescribed: (a) in relation to a person who is a concessional beneficiary- (i) information that the person is the holder of a card known as a Health Care Card, or of a card known as a Pharmaceutical Benefits Concession Card, issued to the person by the Commonwealth; and (ii) the number specified on the card so held by the person as being an entitlement number (however described) in relation to the person; (b) in relation to a person who is a pensioner- (i) information that the person is the holder of a card known as a Health Benefits Card, or of a card known as a Pensioner Health Benefits Card, issued to the person by the Commonwealth; and (ii) the number specified on the card so held by the person as being an entitlement number (however described) in relation to the person; (c) in relation to a person who is a dependant of a concessional beneficiary or of a pensioner- (i) information that the person is named as a dependant of the concessional beneficiary or pensioner, or is the child or one of the children referred to in relation to the concessional beneficiary or pensioner, on a card held by the concessional beneficiary or pensioner, being a card referred to in sub-paragraph (a) (i) or (b) (i) (as the case may be); and (ii) the number specified on that card as being an entitlement number (however described) in relation to the person. "(2) For the purposes of sub-section 84AA (1) of the Act, prescribed information shall be written or marked on a prescription by making- (a) in accordance with the Form in Schedule 7, provision on the face of the prescription for the supply of that information; or (b) where the Minister has, by notice in writing published in the Gazette , given his consent to that effect-an endorsement on the prescription in a form that, immediately before the commencement of this regulation, was a prescribed form for the purposes of section 84AA of the Act as then in force, and inserting- (c) in the case of information that the person to whom the prescription relates- (i) is the holder of a card of a kind referred to in sub-paragraph (1) (a) (i); or (ii) is named as a dependant of a concessional beneficiary, or is the child or one of the children referred to in relation to the concessional beneficiary, on a card of a kind referred to in that sub-paragraph that is held by the concessional beneficiary, a tick or a cross in the square provided on the prescription for the supply of such information in relation to a card of that kind; (d) in the case of information that the person to whom the prescription relates- (i) is the holder of a card of a kind referred to in sub-paragraph (1) (b) (i); or (ii) is named as a dependant of a pensioner, or is the child or one of the children referred to in relation to the pensioner, on a card of a kind referred to in that sub-paragraph that is held by the pensioner, a tick or a cross in the square provided on the prescription for the supply of such information in relation to a card of that kind; or (e) in a case where the information is the entitlement number referred to in sub-paragraph (1) (a) (ii), (1) (b) (ii) or (1) (c) (ii) (as the case may be) in relation to the person to whom the prescription relates-the letters and digits forming that number, in the appropriate sequence, in the squares provided on the prescription for the supply of such information. "(3) For the purposes of sub-section 84AA (2) of the Act, prescribed information shall be communicated to a pharmaceutical chemist orally or in writing.". 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4 Repeat authorizations 4. Regulation 26 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (d) "in the declaration". 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5 Deferred supply authorization 5. Regulation 26A of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (c) "in the declaration". 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 6 Receipts 6. Regulation 31 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1A) the following sub-regulation: "(1B) Where, in accordance with sub-regulation (1A), a person signs a receipt for a pharmaceutical benefit on an appropriate document that is a concessional benefit prescription or a pensioner benefit prescription, the person shall, under the same signature, give a certificate to the effect that the document does not contain any information relating to the status of the person to whom the document relates as a concessional beneficiary, a dependant of a concessional beneficiary, a pensioner or a dependant of a pensioner that is, to his knowledge, false or misleading in a material particular.". 1983 No. 102 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 7 Schedule 7 7. The Principal Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule: SCHEDULE 7 Sub-regulation 19A (2) FORM FOR THE SUPPLY ON PRESCRIPTIONS OF INFORMATION REGARDING THE STATUS OF PATIENTS AS PENSIONERS, &C. (Form omitted) - NOTES 1983 No. 102*1* NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT) *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 July 1983. *2* Statutory Rules 1960 No. 17 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 28 and see also Statutory Rules 1983 No. 28.