PB 106 of 2021
National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment (Further Extension) Special Arrangement 2021
I, Thea Connolly, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following special arrangement under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.
Dated 15 September 2021
Thea Connolly
Acting First Assistant Secretary
Technology Assessment and Access Division
Department of Health
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020
(1) This instrument is the National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Amendment (Further Extension) Special Arrangement 2021.
(2) This instrument may also be cited as PB 106 of 2021.
(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.
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020
1 Section 4
Omit “30 September 2021”, substitute “1 January 2022”.
2 After Section 17
Insert:
18 Transitional provision for existing prescriptions
(1) In this Section:
repeal date means the date this Special Arrangement is repealed, being at the start of 1 January 2022.
(2) This Special Arrangement continues to apply on and after the repeal date in relation to the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit made under this Special Arrangement if the prescription for the pharmaceutical benefit is dated before the repeal date.