Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988:reg:45:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00988
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 45 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 79070–81774

(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 information requirements approved for the electronic medication chart under paragraph 41(5)(b) as are specified, in writing, by the Secretary under subsection (9) of this section; and
 (b) contains a date stamp showing the date and time when the copy was generated.
 (2B) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(aa)(ii), the approved supplier:
 (a) must supply the pharmaceutical benefit within 72 hours of the date and time stamped on the copy of the electronic medication chart in accordance with paragraph (2A)(b); and
 (b) despite subsections (5), (6) and (7), must not:
 (i) supply the pharmaceutical benefit more than once; or
 (ii) supply more than the maximum quantity of the pharmaceutical benefit.
 (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a residential care service:
 (a) if the chart is an electronic medication chart:
 (i) starts on the day when the first prescription for a pharmaceutical benefit is written in the medication chart; and
 (ii) ends 6 months after the day mentioned in subparagraph (i); or
 (b) otherwise:
 (i) starts on the day in a calendar month (the first calendar month) when the first prescription for a pharmaceutical benefit is written in the medication chart; and
 (ii) ends on the last day of the third calendar month that starts after the first calendar month.
Example: The first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June. The period of validity of the medication chart starts on 11 June and, if it is written in an electronic medication chart, ends on 11 December. Otherwise, it ends on 30 September.
 (4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a hospital:
 (a) starts on the day when the first prescription for a pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart; and
 (b) ends at the end of the day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart's period of validity ends (see paragraph 41(2)(f)).

Quantity that may be supplied
 (5) An approved supplier may supply up to a maximum quantity of a pharmaceutical item or pharmaceutical benefit more than once on the basis of a particular medication chart prescription for the pharmaceutical benefit only if:
 (a) the prescription indicates either of the following:
 (i) that an ongoing supply of the pharmaceutical benefit is authorised for the period of validity of the chart;
 (ii) a