Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081:clause:2_31
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00081
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 2 cl 31
Character Range: 81230–82113

31  Community Pharmacist not entitled to demand or receive payments
  A Community Pharmacist is not entitled to demand of, or receive from, a person in receipt of a Pharmaceutical benefit, payment in money or a valuable consideration for goods and services rendered under this Scheme except:
 (a) for goods or services that are provided in an emergency; or
 (b) for payment of an after‑hours fee; or
 (c) for payment for packaging material, postage or freight; or
 (d) for payment that represents the required payment under the PBS of the price difference between the drug prescribed and supplied and the lowest priced brand of the same drug listed on the PBS Schedule; or
 (e) where payment represents the difference between the Commonwealth's financial responsibility for the provision of the Pharmaceutical benefit and the dispensed price of the Pharmaceutical benefit supplied.