Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376:reg:45b:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 45B (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 34266–37375

45B  Keeping documents—medication chart prescriptions

 (1) If a Community Pharmacist supplies a Pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription, the pharmacist is to keep the medication chart, or a copy of the medication chart on which the Community Pharmacist wrote the details mentioned in paragraph 16AA(2)(c) in relation to the prescription, for at least 2 years from the date of supply.

  15  Schedule 1 – Incorporated Documents

      omit:

  The following documents, in force on 1 November 2013, are incorporated-by-reference into the Scheme:

  substitute:

  The following documents, in the version in which they exist on 1 April 2015, are incorporated-by-reference into the Scheme:

  16  Schedule 1 – Incorporated Documents (List A)

      insert:

      *                  RPBS Explanatory Notes

      *                  PBS or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

  Schedule 2

Variations to the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

  1 Part 1 – Interpretation (Section 3)

    insert:

  "approved hospital" means a hospital in respect of which the hospital authority is approved under section 94 of the National Health Act 1953;

  "authority prescription" means:

       (a) a prescription of a Pharmaceutical benefit for which Prior Approval under section 6 is required;

       (b) an authority prescription as defined in the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960;

  "Chief Executive Medicare" has the meaning given by the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973;

  "claims rules" mean the rules, in force from time to time, made under subsections 98AC(4) and 99AAA(8) of the National Health Act 1953;

   "dependant", in relation to a concessional beneficiary, has the meaning given by Part VII of the National Health Act 1953;
  "hospital treatment" has the meaning given by section 121‑5 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007;

  "medication chart" has the meaning given by subsection 11B(6);

  "MPBS" means the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme;

   "pharmaceutical item" has the meaning given in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953;

  "PBS prescriber" has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the National Health Act 1953;

  "PBS prescriber number" means the number given by the Chief Executive Medicare to a person who may prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit under the National Health Act 1953;

  "Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits" means all that writing in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the part "Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits";

  Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 1077-1082.

  "residential care service" has the meaning given by the Aged Care Act 1997;

  "RPBS Explanatory Notes" means the document forming part of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that is the: RPBS Explanatory Notes – being the version of the document as it exists on the date for the document in Schedule 1;

    Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 1079-1082.

  2 Part 1 – Interpretation (Section 3)

  omit the definition "Approved Hospital