Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00083:reg:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00083
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 4/6)
Character Range: 14670–17593

Health Act 1953.
MPBS means the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
MPBS prescriber means an Approved Medical Practitioner, an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner.
Note: an RPBS prescriber who is an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner may only prescribe a Pharmaceutical benefit listed on the PBS and a prescription by an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner for a Pharmaceutical benefit that is not available on the PBS is not recognised under the Scheme, even if the Pharmaceutical benefit is available under the Scheme on the prescription of, say, an Approved Medical Practitioner.
MRCA supplement means the compensation payable under section 300 of the Act, in force from time to time.
MRCA Treatment Principles means the determination called the MRCA Treatment Principles, made by the Commission under section 286 of the Act and in force from time to time.
paper‑based prescription means a prescription that is prepared in duplicate in accordance with subsection 40(2) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017 in force from time to time.
PBS or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme means the document entitled "SCHEDULE OF PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS" with International Standard Serial Number 1037‑3667, being the version of the document in the form in which it exists from time to time.
PBS prescriber has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the National Health Act 1953.
PBS prescriber number means the number given by the Chief Executive Medicare to a person who may prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit under the National Health Act 1953.
PBS Schedule means the collection of instruments made under Part VII of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act) by the Minister who administers that Act, as those instruments are in force from time to time.
pension supplement has the same meaning it has in subsection 5Q(1) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, in force from time to time.
pharmaceutical allowance means the component of the MRCA supplement, veterans supplement or pension supplement or war widow/war widower pension that is to assist with the purchase of Pharmaceutical benefits, the calculated value of which is referred to in paragraph 37 (pharmaceutical allowance component) of Part 5A.
pharmaceutical benefit has a drug has the same meaning as in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953.
Pharmaceutical benefits has the same meaning as pharmaceutical benefits in subsection 91(9) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
pharmaceutical item has the meaning given in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953.
pharmaceutical reimbursement means the financial amount described in paragraphs 33‑35 of Part 5A.
Prior Approval means the prior approval of the Commission.

       relevant streamlined authority code, for a pharmaceutical benefit that is prescribed, means the streamlined authority code that is part of:

          1.