NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1990 NO. 338 

NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1990 NO. 338 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Commencement  
2.  Amendment  
3.  Regulation 9A (Pharmaceutical benefits prescription record forms)  


1990 No. 338 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
Commencement


  1. These Regulations commence on the date of commencement of paragraph 5 (c)
of the Social Welfare Legislation (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment Act
1990.


1990 No. 338 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
2. Amendment


  2.1 The National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations are amended as
set out in these Regulations.


1990 No. 338 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 3
3. Regulation 9A (Pharmaceutical benefits prescription record forms)


  3.1 Subregulation 9A (4):
Add at the end:
  "(c) the maximum value of the pharmaceutical benefit for safety net
purposes.".
  3.2 Add at the end:
  "(5) The maximum value of a pharmaceutical benefit for safety net purposes
is:
  (a)  if the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied to a pensioner who is charged
under paragraph 87 (2) (a) of the Act on or after 1 November 1990: the amount
referred to in that paragraph as in force when the price is charged; or
  (b)  if the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied to a concessional beneficiary
who is charged under paragraph 87 (2) (a) of the Act on or after 1 January
1991: the amount referred to in that paragraph as in force when the price is
charged; or
  (c)  if the price of the pharmaceutical benefit is charged under paragraph
87 (2) (b), (c) or (d) of the Act on or after 1 January 1991: the amount
referred to in that paragraph as in force when the price is charged; or
  (d)  if the price of the pharmaceutical benefit is charged under paragraph
87 (2) (e) of the Act on or after 1 January 1991 and paragraph (e) does not
apply: the amount referred to in paragraph 87 (2) (e) of the Act as in force
when the price is charged; or
  (e)  if:
  (i)  the price of the pharmaceutical benefit is charged on or after 1
January 1991; and
  (ii)  the agreed price, within the meaning of subsection 84c (6) of the Act
as in force when the price is charged, of the pharmaceutical benefit is less
than the amount referred to in paragraph (d):
that agreed price, or the price charged if the price charged is less than that
agreed price.".


- NOTES


1990 No. 338*1* NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS*2*
(AMENDMENT)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 October 1990.
*2* Statutory Rules 1960 No. 17 as amended to date. For previous amendments
see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1990 No. 226 and see also Statutory Rules 1990
Nos. 226, 267 and 337.