National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)

(Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without

Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 4) Determination 2023

Contents

1 Name...............................................1

2 Commencement.........................................1

3 Authority.............................................1

4 Schedules.............................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 4) Determination 2023.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 66 of 2023.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 subsection 89A(3) 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 Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of

Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

1  Subsection 5(8), after item 46 dealing with Cefaclor

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