Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081:clause:2_11b:p3
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Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 11B (pt 3/4)
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specified by the Secretary, in writing, for the purposes of subparagraph 40(2A)(a)(iii) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017; or
             (v) the prescription is for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit listed under the heading "Various" in the RPBS Schedule;

        particulars sufficient to identify the pharmaceutical benefit; or

 (b) otherwise:
 (i) each drug that the Pharmaceutical benefit has; and
 (ii) if the RPBS prescriber considers that it is necessary for the medical treatment of the patient to identify a brand of the pharmaceutical item that the Pharmaceutical benefit has—the brand of the pharmaceutical item.
 (3B) If subparagraph (3A)(b)(ii) applies, the brand of the pharmaceutical item must be listed after the drugs that the pharmaceutical benefit has.
 (3C) Subsection (3A) does not apply to the extent that it would be contrary to a law of a State or Territory that would otherwise apply.

Completing section of medication chart—authority prescriptions
 (4) An RPBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart in accordance with this subsection for a person for the purpose of writing an authority prescription if the section of the chart contains:
 (a) the authority approval number (if one is given); or
 (b) the relevant streamlined authority code for the Pharmaceutical benefit that is prescribed.

Authority prescriptions that have been authorised in accordance with certain authority required procedures
 (4A) Subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) does not apply to authority prescriptions that have been authorised in accordance with authority required procedures that are incorporated by reference into the circumstances determined for a Pharmaceutical benefit under subsection 85B(4) of the National Health Act 1953.
Note: If the authority required procedures referred to in subsection (4A) require a streamlined authority code or an authority approval number to be written on an authority prescription, and the code or number is not written on the authority prescription, the special patient contribution is not payable by the Commonwealth: see subsection 85B(4) of the National Health Act 1953.
  Medication charts
 (6) A medication chart is a chart in a form (if any) approved under subsection (7) that is used for prescribing, and recording the administration of, Pharmaceutical benefits to persons receiving treatment in or at a residential care service or a hospital, whether or not the chart :
 (a) is used for any other purpose; or
 (b) contains any other information.
Note: For paragraph (a), the chart may also be used (for example) to prescribe, and record the administration of drugs, medicines and other substances that are not Pharmaceutical benefits.
 (7) The form of a medication chart is approved if the Secretary (as defined in the National Health Act 1953) has approved it.

Electronic medication charts
 (8) An electronic medication chart is a medication chart in a form approved