Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:84c:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 84C (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 106553–109235

of section 99F).
Note: Supplies of pharmaceutical benefits may include supplies referred to in subsections 99(2A), (2AB) and (2B).
 (1D) A person is eligible to be issued with an entitlement card at the time of the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit, repatriation pharmaceutical benefit or out‑patient medication to the person or a member of the person's family if:
 (a) where the person is a concessional beneficiary at the time of the supply—including the value for safety net purposes of the supply; or
 (b) where the person is a general patient at the time of the supply—including the transferred value of the supply;
in the total mentioned in paragraph (1C)(a) or (b) would fulfil that paragraph.
 (1E) The regulations may prescribe the value for safety net purposes of a supply of a pharmaceutical benefit.
 (1F) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (1E) must take into account the amount charged for the supply, but may make adjustments to the value for safety net purposes such as:
 (a) excluding certain components of the amount charged; or
 (b) setting a maximum limit on the value.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, a pharmaceutical benefit supply or a supply of out‑patient medication is taken to have been made, during a relevant entitlement period, to a person's family if and only if the supply was made, during that period, to:
 (a) a person who was, at the time when the person applied for the issue of a concessional card or an entitlement card in respect of that period, a member of the person's family; or
 (b) a person who was, at the time of supply, a member of the person's family.
 (3) Where:
 (a) a prescription is for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit or a repatriation pharmaceutical benefit to a person (in this subsection referred to as the patient); and
 (b) upon the prescription, a pharmaceutical benefit or repatriation pharmaceutical benefit (the benefit) is given to another person, as agent for the patient, for supply to the patient;
the benefit shall, for the purposes of this section, be taken to have been supplied to the patient upon the prescription.
 (4) The supply or repeated supply of a pharmaceutical benefit to a person shall not be taken into account for the purposes of this section unless:
 (a) the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied:
 (i) by an approved pharmacist, at or from premises in respect of which the pharmacist is for the time being approved, on presentation of a prescription written by a PBS prescriber in accordance with this Act and the regulations, or, in such circumstances as are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 89(a), on communication to the pharmacist, in the manner prescribed for