Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00169:clause:1_15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007A00169
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 15
Character Range: 9847–10576

15  Before subsection 88(2)
Insert:

 (1C) Subject to this Part, an authorised optometrist is authorised to write a prescription on or after 1 January 2008 for the supply of any pharmaceutical benefit determined from time to time by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection, by notice published in the Gazette.

 (1D) When writing a prescription under subsection (1C) for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit that has a pharmaceutical item, the authorised optometrist, in identifying the pharmaceutical benefit to be supplied, need not specify:
 (a) a listed brand of the pharmaceutical item in the pharmaceutical benefit; or
 (b) the manner of administration of the pharmaceutical item in the pharmaceutical benefit.