Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01393:schedule:1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01393
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1
Character Range: 1934–4051

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Continued Dispensing) Determination 2022 (PB 59 of 2022)

   1.         Subsection 1.05(1) (definition of purposes code)
Omit "2012", substitute "2024".

   1.         Subsection 1.05(1) (definition of relevant purpose)
Omit "Schedule 4 of the National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2012", substitute "Part 1 of Schedule 4 of the National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2024".

   1.         At the end of section 1.05
Add:

        1.     Where an expression that is used in this instrument is defined for the purposes of Part VII of the Act, it has the same meaning in this instrument as it has in that Part. Expressions used in this instrument that are defined in Part VII include the following:
           (a)  approved pharmacist;
           (b)  pbs prescriber;
           (c)  pharmaceutical benefit has a drug;
           (d)  pharmaceutical benefit;
           (e)  pharmaceutical item;
           (f)  schedule equivalent.

   1.         Section 2.01
 Repeal the section, substitute:

2.01 Pharmaceutical benefits covered by this instrument

           For the purposes of paragraph 89A(3)(a) of the Act, each pharmaceutical benefit that has a drug mentioned in an item in Schedule 1 is determined to be a pharmaceutical benefit that may be supplied by an approved pharmacist without a prescription.

               Note: A pharmaceutical benefit has the drug or medicinal preparation referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition pharmaceutical benefit in relation to that benefit – see subsection 84ABA(3).

   1.         Part 4
Repeal the Part.

   1.         Schedule 1 (heading)
Omit "prescription", substitute "prescription - pharmaceutical benefits that have certain listed drugs".

   1.         Schedule 1 (note to Schedule heading)
Omit "3.01", substitute "2.01".

   1.         Section 1 of Schedule 1 (heading)
Omit "approved pharmacist", substitute "approved pharmacist – pharmaceutical benefits that have certain listed drugs".

   1.         Section 1 of Schedule 1 (after table item 28)
    Insert: