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National Health (Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy) Special Arrangement 2024

PB 31 of 2024
made under sections 85, 85A, 99 and 100 of the

National Health Act 1953

Compilation No. 10

Compilation date: 1 February 2025

                Includes amendments: F2025L00067

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the National Health (Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy) Special Arrangement 2024 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 1 February 2025 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

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Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

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Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
3 Authority
4 Simplified outline
5 Definitions
6 Definition of authorised prescriber
7 Definition of eligible patient
8 Application of Act and instruments in relation to special arrangement supplies to patients receiving treatment from hospitals
9 Application of Act and instruments in relation to chemotherapy prescriptions and special arrangement supplies of doses of chemotherapy drugs
Part 2—Special arrangement supplies
Division 1—Preliminary
10 Definition of special arrangement supply
Division 2—Prescribing doses of chemotherapy drugs and related pharmaceutical benefits
11 Prescribing chemotherapy drugs
12 Prescription circumstances—general
13 Prescription circumstances—authority required procedures
14 Maximum amount—chemotherapy drugs
14A Prescribing amounts of active ingredients in dose of chemotherapy drug
15 Maximum quantity (number of units)—related pharmaceutical benefits
16 Maximum number of repeats—chemotherapy drugs
17 Maximum number of repeats—related pharmaceutical benefits
18 Variation of maximum amount or quantity or maximum number of repeats
19 Writing chemotherapy prescriptions that