PB 86 of 2022

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits – early supply) Amendment Instrument 2022
(No. 9)

National Health Act 1953

I, NIKOLAI TSYGANOV, Assistant Secretary (Acting), Pricing and PBS Policy Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health and Aged Care, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make this Instrument under subsection 84AAA(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated   29 September 2022                                                     

NIKOLAI TSYGANOV

Assistant Secretary (Acting)

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Contents

1......... Name............................................................................................................................... 1

2......... Commencement............................................................................................................... 1

3......... Authority......................................................................................................................... 1

4......... Schedules......................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits—early supply) Instrument 2015
(PB 120 of 2015).                                                                                                                                   2

1        Name

(1)          This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits – early supply) Amendment Instrument 2022 (No. 9).

(2)          This Instrument may also be cited as PB 86 of 2022.

2        Commencement

(1)          Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)          Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3        Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 84AAA(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

4        Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits—early supply) Instrument 2015 (PB 120 of 2015)

[1]        Schedule 1, omit entry for Alendronic acid with colecalciferol and calcium

[2]        Schedule 1, after entry for Dasatinib in the form Tablet 100 mg [Maximum Quantity: 30; Number of Repeats: 5]

insert:

[3]        Schedule 1, entry for Enzalutamide

substitute:

[4]        Schedule 1, after entry for Ethosuximide in the form Capsule 250 mg

insert:

[5]        Schedule 1, entry for Fremanezumab

insert as first entry:

[6]        Schedule 1, entry for Nifedipine

omit:

[7]        Schedule 1, after entry for Triamcinolone

insert: