Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Modifications—National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme)) Determination 2020

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated 23 December 2020

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Modifications

Schedule 1—Modifications of the National Health Act 1953

1  Name

  This instrument is the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Modifications—National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme)) Determination 2020.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subitem 1(2) of Schedule 5 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020.

4  Modifications

  Each modification of a provision of the National Health Act 1953 as set out in a Schedule to this instrument is determined for the purposes of subitem 1(2) of Schedule 5 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020.

Schedule 1—Modifications of the National Health Act 1953

1  Definitions

In this Schedule:

relevant period means the period:

 (a) starting on 8 April 2020; and

 (b) ending on the day on which item 1 of Schedule 5 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020 is repealed.

2  Disapplication of paragraph 84DA(3)(c)

Paragraph 84DA(3)(c) of the National Health Act 1953 does not apply for the relevant period in relation to:

 (a) an application made under subsection 84DA(1) or (2) of that Act during that period; or

 (b) an application made under either of those subsections before the start of that period if the application is dealt with during the period.

3  Disapplication of paragraph 84E(3)(c)

Paragraph 84E(3)(c) of the National Health Act 1953 does not apply for the relevant period in relation to:

 (a) an application made under subsection 84E(1) or (2) of that Act during that period; or

 (b) an application made under either of those subsections before the start of that period if the application is dealt with during the period.