Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00124:reg:40
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Provision Reference: reg 40
Character Range: 60236–61084

40  Definitions
  In this Division:
Claims Rules means the National Health (Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits—Under Co‑payment Data and Claims for Payment) Rules 2022.
pre‑commencement benefit: see section 50.
pre‑commencement prescription: a prescription is a pre‑commencement prescription if:
 (a) the prescription was written:
 (i) before 1 July 2023; and
 (ii) by an authorised nurse practitioner or a medical practitioner; and
 (iii) for the supply to a person of a drug that is a medication for the treatment of opioid dependence; and
 (iv) in the circumstance that the prescription was for the treatment of opiate dependence, including for detoxification (withdrawal) and maintenance of withdrawal; and
 (b) immediately before 1 July 2023, a pre‑commencement benefit could have been supplied to the person on the basis of the prescription.