Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:88:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 88 (pt 4/4)
Character Range: 192137–193023

a direction;
 (ii) conditions on the making of such a direction; and
 (b) the direction is made in those circumstances and in accordance with those conditions.
 (7) Except in accordance with a determination of the Minister under subsection 85A(2), a PBS prescriber is not authorized, in a prescription for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit, to direct that the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit be repeated on one or more occasions.
 (8) If, in one prescription:
 (a) the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit (the first benefit) and another pharmaceutical benefit (the second benefit) is directed; and
 (b) the second benefit is:
 (i) Schedule equivalent to the first benefit; or
 (ii) if the first benefit is a listed brand of a pharmaceutical item—another listed brand of the pharmaceutical item;
then the prescription is taken to direct the repeated supply of the first benefit.