PB 96 of 2023

National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2023 (No. 2)

National Health Act 1953

I, NIKOLAI TSYGANOV, Assistant Secretary, Pricing and PBS Policy Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health and Aged Care, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make this Instrument under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Date   28 September 2023                    

NIKOLAI TSYGANOV

Assistant Secretary

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement 2015
(PB 85 of 2015) 2

1        Name

(1)           This instrument is the National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2023 (No. 2).

(2)           This instrument may also be cited as PB 96 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 100(2) 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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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]                   Part 1, Section 4, Definitions for “adult”

Repeal and substitute:

adult means a person, who:

(a)      is not a child; or

(b)      is 18 years of age or older and has late onset growth hormone deficiency.

[2]                   Part 1, Section 4, Definitions for “CDC 2000”

Repeal and substitute:

CDC 2000 means the growth charts in the document entitled 2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: Methods and Development and CDC Extended BMI-for-Age Growth Charts, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, dated December 2022, and available on that Department’s website at http://www.cdc.gov/GROWTHcharts

[3]                   Part 1, Section 4, Definitions for “child”

Repeal and substitute:

child means a person, who:

(a) has a non-mature skeleton; or

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