Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00070:reg:3:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00070
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 9032–10907

Act, to the person to whom the benefit is supplied, by an approved pharmacist or an approved medical practitioner.
pharmaceutical benefit has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
pharmaceutical item has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
proportional ex‑manufacturer price has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
ready‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit means a pharmaceutical benefit in respect of which a determination is in force under subsection 85(6) of the Act.
Regulations means the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017.
standard formula preparation means a pharmaceutical benefit that is a standard formula preparation under the determination in force under paragraph 98C(1)(b) of the Act.
Note: Under that determination, certain extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefits are listed as standard formula preparations.
type, of an extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit that is not a standard formula preparation, means a type of benefit determined under paragraphs 85A(2)(a) and (b) of the Act.
Note: Paragraphs 85A(2)(a) and (b) of the Act provide for the determination of the maximum quantity or number of units of a pharmaceutical benefit that may, in one prescription, be directed to be supplied on any one occasion and the determination of the maximum number of occasions on which the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit may, in one prescription, be directed to be repeated.
vehicle means a substance that has little or no medicinal action and is used as a medium for an active ingredient.
wastage means the combined loss that arises from:
 (a) transferring drugs and chemicals from the package in which they are delivered to an approved hospital authority to the dispensing package delivered to a patient; and
 (b) deterioration; and
 (c) obsolescence.

Part 2—Rates and conditions of payment—general