Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00119:reg:14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00119
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 14
Character Range: 23501–25372

14  Maximum amount—chemotherapy drugs
 (1) This section determines the maximum amount of a chemotherapy drug that an authorised prescriber may, in one chemotherapy prescription, direct to be supplied in a dose of the drug.
 (2) If only one amount is mentioned in the column of the table in Part 2 of Schedule 1 headed "Maximum Amount" (the maximum amount column) in relation to a chemotherapy drug, that amount is the maximum amount of the chemotherapy drug for all purposes.
 (3) If more than one amount is mentioned in the maximum amount column in relation to a chemotherapy drug, then:
 (a) if a purposes code is mentioned in the column of the table headed "Purposes" in relation to an amount—that amount is the maximum amount of the chemotherapy drug for the purposes mentioned in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 3 for that purposes code; and
 (b) if no purposes code is mentioned in the column in relation to an amount—that amount is the maximum amount for all purposes other than purposes to which paragraph (a) applies.
 (4) For a chemotherapy drug mentioned in column 1 of an item of the following table:
 (a) an amount mentioned in the maximum amount column in relation to the chemotherapy drug is the maximum amount, of the active ingredient mentioned in column 2 of the item of the following table, that an authorised prescriber may direct to be supplied in a dose of the chemotherapy drug; and
 (b) a reference in this instrument to the maximum amount of the chemotherapy drug is taken to be a reference to the maximum amount of the active ingredient.

Maximum amounts for chemotherapy drugs with multiple active ingredients
Item                                                                     Column 1                      Column 2
                                                                         Chemotherapy drug             Active ingredient