PB 117 of 2021

 

National Health (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Consequential Amendments Special Arrangement 2021

I, Adriana Platona, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following instrument.

Dated         27 October 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adriana Platona

First Assistant Secretary

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1 — Amendments

National Health (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Special Arrangement 2020 (PB 52 of 2020)

1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Consequential Amendments Special Arrangement 2021.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 117 of 2021.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 November 2021.

1 November 2021.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Special Arrangement 2020 (PB 52 of 2020)

1  Subsection 5(1) (definition of authorised prescriber)

Repeal the definition, substitute:
authorised prescriber, for a pharmaceutical benefit, means a PBS prescriber (within the meaning of Part VII of the Act) authorised under section 9 or 9A of the National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2012 to write a prescription for the supply of the benefit.