Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:87:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 87 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 179087–180783

way of the production of a card or evidence of identity or otherwise) to the pharmacist, medical practitioner or authority that the person is entitled to receive the benefit on those terms.
 (4) The regulations may provide for the making of a charge, not exceeding an amount ascertained in accordance with the regulations:
 (b) by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner in respect of the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit by delivery at or to a place other than premises in respect of which the approved pharmacist is approved, or premises at which the approved medical practitioner carries on practice, as the case may be.
 (5) Subsection (1) does not prevent an approved hospital authority from charging, in respect of the supply of pharmaceutical benefits to a patient receiving treatment in or at a hospital, amounts not exceeding the sum of the charges that the patient could have been required to pay in accordance with subsections (2) and (2A), if the patient had obtained the pharmaceutical benefits from an approved pharmacist upon a prescription or prescriptions directing the supply of the maximum quantity or number of units applicable under a determination of the Minister under subsection 85A(2).
 (5A) Subsection (5) does not apply to a supply if:
 (a) the patient is the holder of an entitlement card; and
 (b) the supply is not an early supply of a specified pharmaceutical benefit.
 (6) The reference in subsection (1) to a payment or other valuable consideration in respect of the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit does not include a reference to a charge demanded or received by reason only that the supply is made at a time outside normal trading hours.