Statutory Rules

1976 No. 195.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Health Act 1953.

Dated this ninth day of September, 1976.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health.

Amendments of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations†

Repeal of regulation 3.

1. Regulation 3 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is repealed.

Interpretation.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1) after the definition of “approved hospital” the following definition:—

“ ‘ approved pharmaceutical chemist ’ means a pharmaceutical chemist for the time being approved, or deemed to be approved, under section 90 of the Act;”.

3. Regulation 29 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Charge in respect of supply of pharmaceutical benefit outside normal trading hours.

“29. An approved pharmaceutical chemist may, where he is required to return to premises in respect of which he is approved in order to supply a pharmaceutical benefit or pharmaceutical benefits at a time outside normal trading hours, make a charge in respect of the supply of that pharmaceutical benefit or of each of those pharmaceutical benefits not exceeding—

(a) where only one pharmaceutical benefit is so supplied—$2; or

(b) where more than one pharmaceutical benefit is so supplied—an amount equal to the amount calculated by dividing $2 by the number of those pharmaceutical benefits.”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 14 September 1976.

† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 17 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1976, No. 84 and see also Statutory Rules 1976, No. 84.

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