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PB 52 of 2023

 

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Subsection 84C(7) Price) Amendment Determination 2023

I, David Laffan, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated   13 June 2023

David Laffan

Assistant Secretary

Pharmacy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health and Aged Care

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Subsection 84C(7) Price) Determination 2019

 

1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Subsection 84C(7) Price) Amendment Determination 2023.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 52 of 2023.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1. The whole of this instrument

1 July 2023.

1 July 2023.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 84C(7) 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Subsection 84C(7) Price) Determination 2019 (PB 113 of 2019)

1  Paragraph 6(1)(c)

Omit:

 “(i) if the pharmaceutical benefit is a readyprepared pharmaceutical benefit—$1.31; or

 (ii) if the pharmaceutical benefit is an extemporaneouslyprepared pharmaceutical benefit—$1.68.”

Substitute:

 “(i) if the pharmaceutical benefit is a readyprepared pharmaceutical benefit—$1.40; or

 (ii) if the pharmaceutical benefit is an extemporaneouslyprepared pharmaceutical benefit—$1.80.”