PB 14 of 2026

National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Medication Charts for Complex Authority Required (CAR) and rituximab Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2026

National Health Act 1953

I, MARYKA GAUDIO, Acting Assistant Secretary, Community Access Programs 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 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated   20 January 2026

MARYKA GAUDIO

Acting Assistant Secretary

Community Access Programs Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement 2021
(PB 27 of 2021) 2

1.       Name

1.            This instrument is the National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Medication Charts for Complex Authority Required (CAR) and rituximab Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2026.
2.            This instrument may also be cited as PB 14 of 2026.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1.       Authority

 This instrument is made under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

1.       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 Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement 2021 (PB 27 of 2021)

1.                    Subsection 18(1)

Repeal the subsection.

[2] Application of amendment

              The amendment made by this Schedule applies to the special arrangement supply of an HSD pharmaceutical benefit that has a CAR drug or rituximab that is made on or after the commencement of this item if the supply is made on the basis of a prescription that was written before, on or after the commencement of this item.