PB 85 of 2025

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits – early supply) Amendment Instrument 2025 (No. 7)

National Health Act 1953

I, REBECCA RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary, PBS Listing, Pricing and Policy Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Instrument under subsection 84AAA(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated 28 July 2025

REBECCA RICHARDSON

Assistant Secretary

PBS Listing, Pricing and Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

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 2025 (No. 7).
2.            This instrument may also be cited as PB 85 of 2025.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

insert:

1.                      Schedule 1, after entry for Drospirenone with ethinylestradiol in the form Pack containing 21 tablets 3 mg drospirenone with 30 micrograms ethinylestradiol and 7 inert tablets

insert:

1.                      Schedule 1, entry for Migalastat

omit from the column headed “Maximum number of repeats”: 5 substitute: 6

1.                      Schedule 1, omit entry for Quinapril with hydrochlorothiazide
2.                      Schedule 1, after entry for Ustekinumab [Maximum quantity or number of units: 2; Maximum number of repeats: 0]

insert: