Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988:reg:41:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 41 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 64392–67042

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 the purpose of subsection 103(2A) of the Act, that only the brand of pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied; and
 (ea) if paragraph (2A)(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 45(4), which must be the day after 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) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service and the chart is not an electronic medication chart—the pharmaceutical benefit is not referred to in Schedule 8 to the current Poisons Standard (within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989); and
 (h) in any case—the section of the chart is completed before the end of the chart's period of validity under subsection 45(3) or (4).
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 the purposes of 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 11 July or 11 October in that year, or 11 June in the following year.
 (2A) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(a)(i), the PBS 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 this subparagraph;
  particulars sufficient to identify the pharmaceutical benefit; or
 (b) otherwise:
 (i) each drug that the pharmaceutical benefit has;