Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988:reg:45:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 45 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 76439–79308

45  Supply of pharmaceutical benefit on basis of medication chart prescription

Who may supply pharmaceutical benefit
 (1) A pharmaceutical benefit may only be supplied on the basis of a medication chart prescription by:
 (a) if the person in respect of whom the pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service—an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner; or
 (b) if the person in respect of whom the pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—an approved pharmacist or the approved hospital authority.

Requirements for supply of pharmaceutical benefit
 (2) An approved supplier may supply a pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription only if:
 (a) if the medication chart by which the prescription was written is not an electronic medication chart—the approved supplier has seen:
 (i) the medication chart by which the prescription was written; or
 (ii) a copy of so much of the chart as would indicate that subsection 41(2), and subsection 41(3) (if applicable), have been complied with; and
 (aa) if the medication chart by which the prescription was written is an electronic medication chart—the approved supplier:
 (i) if subparagraph (ii) does not apply and subject to subsection (8)—has seen the electronic medication chart by which the prescription was written in an electronic medication chart system; or
 (ii) in a case of urgency—has seen a copy of the electronic medication chart that complies with subsection (2A) and supplies the pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with subsection (2B); and
 (b) the date on which the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied is:
 (i) during the period of validity of the medication chart; and
 (ii) no later than the stop date (if any) indicated in the prescription; and
 (c) if the medication chart by which the prescription was written is not an electronic medication chart—the approved supplier writes on the medication chart, or the copy of the chart, the following for the supply:
 (i) the approved supplier's name and approval number under section 16;
 (ii) an identification number for the supply;
 (iii) the date on which the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied; and
 (d) if the medication chart by which the prescription was written is an electronic medication chart—the approved supplier writes on the electronic prescription written in the electronic medication chart the following information for the supply:
 (i) the approved supplier's name and approval number under section 16;
 (ii) an identification number for the supply;
 (iii) the date on which the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied.
 (2A) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(aa)(ii), a copy of an electronic medication chart complies with this subsection if the copy of the chart:
 (a) meets so much of the