Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081:clause:2_11a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 11A (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 33365–35992

be repeated—the number of times it is to be repeated; and
 (i) if the Pharmaceutical benefit to be supplied is not a ready‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit (as defined in the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017)—indicates in the prescription the manner in which the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be administered.
 (1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(g), the RPBS prescriber must identify in the prescription:
 (a) if:
 (i) the prescription is prepared in accordance with paragraph (1)(a); or
 (ii) the prescription is for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit that has 4 or more drugs; or
 (iii) the prescription is for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit that is specified by the Secretary, in writing, for the purposes of subparagraph 40(2A)(a)(iii) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017; or
 (iv) the prescription is for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit listed under the heading "Various" in the RPBS Schedule;
             the Pharmaceutical benefit by such particulars as are necessary to identify the Pharmaceutical benefit; or
 (b) otherwise:
 (i) each drug that the Pharmaceutical benefit has; and
 (ii) if the RPBS prescriber considers that it is necessary for the medical treatment of the person for whom the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied to identify a brand of the pharmaceutical item that the Pharmaceutical benefit has—the brand of the pharmaceutical item.
 (1B) If subparagraph (1A)(b)(ii) applies, the brand of the pharmaceutical item must be listed after the drugs that the Pharmaceutical benefit has.
 (1C) Subsection (1A) does not apply to the extent that it would be contrary to a law of a State or Territory that would otherwise apply.
 (2)  A prescription written in accordance with this section must not provide for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit to:
 (a) a person if the RPBS prescriber has written, on the same day, another prescription for the supply of the same or an equivalent Pharmaceutical benefit to the person; or
 (b) more than 1 person.
 (3) For the purposes of paragraphs (2)(b), (c) and (d), a prescription must not be prepared using a computer program that:
 (a) operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default, for the purposes of subsection 103(2A) of the National Health Act 1953, that only the brand of pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied; or
 (b) if paragraph (2A)(b) of this section applies to the prescription—operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default a brand of the pharmaceutical item that the pharmaceutical benefit has.