Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376:reg:16aa:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 16AA (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 52669–55483

16AA  Supply of pharmaceutical benefit on basis of medication chart prescription

(1)A Pharmaceutical benefit may only be supplied on the basis of a medication chart prescription by:

 (a) if the person in respect of whom the Pharmaceutical               benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at               a residential care service – a Community Pharmacist;               or

  (b) if the person in respect of whom the Pharmaceutical               benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at               an approved hospital— a Community Pharmacist or               the Approved Hospital Authority.

 (2) A Community Pharmacist may supply a Pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription only if:
 (a) the Community Pharmacist has seen:
  (i) the medication chart by which the prescription               was written; or
  (ii) a copy of so much of the chart as would indicate that subsections 11B(3) and (4) (if applicable) have been complied with; and
 (b) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied is:
 (i) during the period of validity of the medication chart; and
 (ii) no later than the stop date (if any) indicated in the prescription; and
 (c) the Community Pharmacist writes on the medication chart or the copy of the chart, the following for the supply:
 (i) the Community Pharmacist's name and any approval number under regulation 8A of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960;
 (ii) an identification number for the supply;
 (iii) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied.

 (3) For paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a residential care service:
 (a) starts on the day in a calendar month (the first calendar month) when the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the medication chart; and
 (b) ends on the last day of the third calendar month that starts after the first calendar month.

Example: The first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June. The period of validity of the medication chart starts on 11 June and ends on 30 September.

Note: calendar month is defined in section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

 (3A) For paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a hospital:

         (a) starts on the day when the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart; and

         (b) ends at the end of the day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart's period of validity ends (see paragraph 11B(3)(f)).

 (4) A Community Pharmacist may supply up to a maximum quantity of a pharmaceutical item or Pharmaceutical benefit more than once on the basis of a particular