Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00083:reg:11a:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00083
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11A (pt 4/6)
Character Range: 36667–39394

at an approved hospital—the patient's address and;
 (c)  the MPBS prescriber writes his or her signature:
 (i) in the section of the chart; and
 (ii) except in the case of an electronic prescription—on the cover page of the chart; and
 (d) the section of the chart does not provide for the  supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit to more than one person; and
 (e) the section of the chart is not completed using a computer program that operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default, for subsection 103(2A) of the National Health Act 1953, that only the brand of Pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied; and
 (ea) if paragraph (3A)(b) of this section applies to the prescription—the section of the chart is not completed using a computer program that operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default a brand of the pharmaceutical item that the pharmaceutical benefit has; and
(f)  if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the chart specifies the day on which the chart's period of validity ends under subsection 16AA(3A), which must be the last day of one of the following periods starting on the day the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart:
 (i) 1 month;
 (ii) 4 months;
 (iii) 12 months; and
 (g) in any case—the section of the chart is completed before the end of the chart's period of validity under subsection 16AA(3) or (3A).
Note: A section in a medication chart may set out fields that only need to have information filled in if the information is relevant to the particular prescription concerned.
Example: For paragraph (f), the first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June in a particular year. The day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart's period of validity ends must be 10 July or 10 October in that year, or 10 June in the following year.

        (3A) For the purposes of subparagraph 11B(3)(a)(i), the MPBS prescriber must write in the section of the chart:

         (a) if:

            (i) the prescription is prepared by handwriting the prescription on the section of the chart; or
            (ii) the prescription is for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit that has 4 or more drugs; or
            (iii) the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service and the medication chart is not an electronic medication chart; or
            (iv) the prescription is for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit that is specified by the Secretary, in writing, for the purposes of subparagraph 40(2A)(a)(iii) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017; or
            (v) the prescription is for the supply