National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2019 (No. 3) (PB 109 of 2019)

I, Natasha Ploenges, Acting Assistant Secretary, Pharmacy Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health, delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following special arrangement under subsection 100 (1) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated 18 December 2019   

Natasha Ploenges

Acting Assistant Secretary

Pharmacy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement 2015 (PB 85 of 2015)

1  Name

(1) This instrument is the National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2019 (No. 3).

(2)  This instrument may also be cited as PB 109 of 2019.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 section 100 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement 2015 (PB 85 of 2015)

1  Subsection 4(1) (definition of adult)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

adult means a person, who is any of the following:

(a)    is 18 years of age or older and has adult onset growth hormone deficiency; or

(b)    has a mature skeleton; or

(c)    has a diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome and is aged 18 years or older.

2  Subsection 4(1) (definition of child)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

child means a person who, is any of the following:

(a)    is not an adult; or 

(b)    has a diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome and is less than 18 years of age.