PB 73 of 2024

National Health (Medication Program for Homeless People) Amendment Special Arrangement 2024

I, David Laffan, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following special arrangement.

Dated 26 June 2024   

David Laffan  

Assistant Secretary

Pharmacy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Medication Program for Homeless People) Special Arrangement 2021

1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Medication Program for Homeless People) Amendment Special Arrangement 2024.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 73 of 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Medication Program for Homeless People) Special Arrangement 2021

1                    Section 5 (definition of residential care recipient)

Repeal the definition.

2                    Subsection 6(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(2) For the purposes of this instrument, a person is not homeless if the person is a care recipient of residential care within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997.

3                    Part 4

Repeal the Part.