Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081:clause:2_9:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081
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Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 9 (pt 1/2)
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9                                                               a statement that particular conditions are satisfied  a statement that particular conditions, as they have effect under this subsection, are satisfied

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 (2) If a Community Pharmacist makes a supply in accordance with subsection (1) or (1A), then this Scheme applies in relation to the supply as if the Eligible Person had presented the pharmacist with a prescription that had been written in accordance with this Scheme.
 (3) The supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with this section is a continued dispensing supply.
 (4)  A Community Pharmacist must not supply a Pharmaceutical benefit under this section unless the pharmacist writes on the repeat authorisation form for the supply:
 (a) the pharmacist's name and approval number under section 16 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017; and
 (b) an identification number for the supply; and
 (c) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied by the pharmacist.
Note: a failure to observe these requirements means the supply is not a continued dispensing supply.
 (5) For a continued dispensing supply a Community Pharmacist or Approved Medical Practitioner must collect the following information at the time of supply:
 (a) information about whether the patient is, at the time of the supply:
 (i) a concessional beneficiary or a dependant of a concessional beneficiary; or
 (ii) the holder of a concession card or entitlement card;
 (b) for a person mentioned in subparagraph (a)(i)—the number specified on a card, issued by the Commonwealth, as an entitlement number (however described) in relation to the person;
 (c) for a person mentioned in subparagraph (a)(ii)—the number of the concession card or entitlement card.
 (6) The Community Pharmacist or Approved Medical Practitioner must include the information collected under subsection (5) in the claim for a payment from the Commonwealth in relation to the supply using the Claims Transmission System, within the meaning given by subsection 99AAA(1) of the National Health Act 1953.
Note: a failure to observe these requirements means the supply is not a continued dispensing supply.
 (7) For the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit by a Community Pharmacist on the basis of a previous prescription from a PBS prescriber or RPBS prescriber, if the PBS prescriber or RPBS prescriber directed in the prescription the supply on one occasion of a quantity or number of units of the Pharmaceutical benefit allowable under subsection 88(6) of the National Health Act 1953, instead of directing a repeated supply, the direction does not apply for the purposes of the continued dispensing supply.
 (8) If, for a continued dispensing supply, a Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied a number of times greater than the number specified in the prescription, then subject to subsection 51(2) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)