Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00124:reg:13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00124
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 13
Character Range: 27833–30107

13  Definition of special arrangement supply

Prescriptions written for public hospital patients
 (1) A supply of an HSD pharmaceutical benefit to a person is a special arrangement supply of the benefit if:
 (a) the person is an eligible patient for the benefit; and
 (b) the benefit is supplied by:
 (i) for any benefit—an approved hospital authority for a public hospital; or
 (ii) for a benefit that has a CAR drug or UNAR drug—an approved pharmacist; and
 (c) the benefit is supplied on the basis of a prescription written:
 (i) when the person was receiving medical treatment in, at or from a public hospital; and
 (ii) by an authorised prescriber for the benefit; and
 (iii) unless the benefit has a UNAR drug—in circumstances mentioned in Schedule 3 for a circumstances code mentioned in the column headed "Circumstances" in Schedule 1 for the benefit.

Prescriptions written for private hospital patients
 (2) A supply of an HSD pharmaceutical benefit to a person is a special arrangement supply of the benefit if:
 (a) the person is an eligible patient for the benefit; and
 (b) the benefit is supplied by:
 (i) an approved hospital authority for a private hospital; or
 (ii) an approved pharmacist; and
 (c) the benefit is supplied on the basis of a prescription written:
 (i) when the person was receiving medical treatment in, at or from a private hospital; and
 (ii) by an authorised prescriber for the benefit; and
 (iii) unless the benefit has a UNAR drug—in circumstances mentioned in Schedule 3 for a circumstances code mentioned in the column headed "Circumstances" in Schedule 1 for the benefit.

Community access arrangements
 (3) A supply of an HSD pharmaceutical benefit to a person is a special arrangement supply of the benefit if:
 (a) the benefit has a drug that is a community access medication; and
 (b) the person is an eligible patient for the benefit; and
 (c) the benefit is supplied by an approved supplier; and
 (d) the benefit is supplied on the basis of a prescription written:
 (i) by an authorised prescriber for the benefit; and
 (ii) in circumstances mentioned in Schedule 3 for a circumstances code mentioned in the column headed "Circumstances" in Schedule 1 for the benefit.

Division 2—Prescribing of HSD pharmaceutical benefits