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PB 125 of 2024

 

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits – early supply) Amendment Instrument 2024
(No. 11)

 

National Health Act 1953

 

I, EDEN SIMON, Assistant Secretary (Acting), 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 84AAA(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated 28 November 2024

EDEN SIMON

Assistant Secretary (Acting)

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits—early supply) Instrument 2015
(PB 120 of 2015). 2

 

1 Name

  1.            This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits – early supply) Amendment Instrument 2024 (No. 11).
  2.            This instrument may also be cited as PB 125 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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1. The whole of this instrument

1 December 2024

1 December 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.

  1.            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 84AAA(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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical benefits—early supply) Instrument 2015 (PB 120 of 2015)

  1.            Schedule 1, after entry for Clonazepam in the form Tablet 2 mg

insert:

 

Tablet 2 mg (S19A)

20

200

2

 

  1.            Schedule 1, after entry for Deucravacitinib

insert:

Dienogest

Tablet 2 mg

20

28

5

 

  1.            Schedule 1, after entry for Ezetimibe in the form Tablet 10 mg

insert:

 

Tablet 10 mg (S19A)

20

30

5

 

  1.            Schedule 1, entry for Medroxyprogesterone

omit:

 

Injection containing medroxyprogesterone acetate 150 mg in 1 mL

20

1

1

 

  1.            Schedule 1, entry for Varenicline

substitute:

Varenicline

Box containing 11 tablets 0.5 mg and 42 tablets 1 mg

20

1

0

 

 

Tablet 1 mg

20

56

2

 

 

 

20

112

0

 

  1.            Schedule 2, after entry for Ezetimibe in the form Tablet 10 mg

insert:

 

Tablet 10 mg (S19A)

50

60

5