Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:99:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 99 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 280897–283701

time of the supply, exceed the general patient charge amount; or
 (b) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner in accordance with a direction included in a prescription in pursuance of subsection 88(6) or (6A) and the Commonwealth price of the maximum quantity or number of units of the pharmaceutical benefit that could, but for that subsection, have been directed to be supplied on any one occasion does not, at the time of the supply, exceed the general patient charge amount;
the supply and receipt of that pharmaceutical benefit shall, for all purposes of this Part (other than for the purposes of Division 1A), be deemed to be a supply and receipt otherwise than under this Part.
 (2AB) Where a pharmaceutical benefit is supplied upon a general benefit prescription to a person referred to in paragraph 87(2)(b) and:
 (a) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner otherwise than as referred to in paragraph (c) and the Commonwealth price of the pharmaceutical benefit does not, at the time of the supply, exceed $4.60; or
 (b) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved hospital authority and the amount that would have been the Commonwealth price of the pharmaceutical benefit if it had been supplied by an approved pharmacist does not, at the time of the supply, exceed $4.60; or
 (c) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner in accordance with a direction included in a prescription under subsection 88(6) or (6A) and the Commonwealth price of the maximum quantity or number of units of:
 (i) if the pharmaceutical benefit has a pharmaceutical item—the pharmaceutical item; or
 (ii) in any other case—the pharmaceutical benefit;
  that could, apart from that subsection, have been directed to be supplied on any one occasion does not, at the time of the supply, exceed $4.60;
the supply and receipt of that pharmaceutical benefit is, for all purposes of this Part (other than the purposes of Division 1A), taken to be a supply and receipt otherwise than under this Part.
Note: The figures expressed in this subsection in dollars are periodically adjusted under section 99G.
 (2B) Where a pharmaceutical benefit is supplied upon a concessional benefit prescription and:
 (a) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner otherwise than as referred to in paragraph (c) and the Commonwealth price of the pharmaceutical benefit does not, at the time of the supply, exceed $4.60; or
 (b) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by an approved hospital authority and the amount that would have been the Commonwealth price of the pharmaceutical benefit if it