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10  At the end of section 99
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 (7) Subject to subsection (8), an approved supplier is not entitled:
 (a) if the supplier is an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner—despite subsection 99(2); and
 (b) if the supplier is an approved hospital authority—despite subsection 99(4);
to be paid by the Commonwealth for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit to a person on a prescription presented to the approved supplier on or after 1 July 2001 or such later date as is prescribed for the purposes of this subsection unless:
 (c) there is ultimately supplied to the Health Insurance Commission a medicare number, or a special number, as a number applicable to the person to whom the prescription relates; and
 (d) if the number so supplied is such a medicare number—that medicare number corresponds with a medicare number that is held in the records of the Health Insurance Commission as a number applicable to that person.

 (8) The Minister may, by written determination, identify circumstances in which subsection (7) does not prevent an approved supplier being paid by the Commonwealth for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit in respect of a person to whom a prescription relates although a medicare number ultimately supplied to the Health Insurance Commission in relation to the prescription does not correspond with a medicare number that is held in the records of the Health Insurance Commission as a number applicable to that person.

 (9) Ministerial determinations for the purposes of subsection (8) are disallowable instruments within the meaning of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.