{"id":"F2007B00990","name":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85(2AA) (30/03/1988)","slug":"national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":62455,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2007B00990-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85(2AA) (30/03/1988)","content":"![](image.001.png)COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA  \nNATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953  \nPHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS  \nDECLARATION UNDER SUB-SECTION 85(2AA)\n\nI, JOHN STEWART DEEBLE, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Health Benefits Division, Department of Community Services and Health and Delegate of the Minister of State for Community Services and Health, pursuant to sub-section 85(2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, hereby make the following Declaration:\n\n1.  This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 April 1988.\n2.  The drugs and medicinal preparations contained in the Schedule to this Declaration shall cease to be drugs and medicinal preparations to which Part VII of the National Health Act 1953 applies.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE\n\nChloroquine Sulphate Injection B.P.\n\nChlortetracycline\n\nChlortetracycline Hydrochloride B.P.\n\nClorexolone\n\nErgocalciferol B.P.\n\nEthanolamine Oleate Injection B.P.\n\nFluphenazine Hydrochloride B.P.\n\n\"Galactomin, Formula No. 17\"\n\nIron Sorbitol Injection B.P.\n\nLiothyronine Tablets B.P.\n\nMagenta B.P.C. 1973\n\nNorgestrel with Ethinyloestradiol B.P.\n\nOxytetracycline Hydrochloride B.P.\n\nPrednisolone B.P.\n\nSodium Lactate Intravenous Infusion B.P.\n\nSulphafurazole Tablets B.P.\n\nSulphapyridine Tablets B.P.\n\n\"Zerodor\"\n\n![](image.002.png)Dated this 30th day of March 1988.\n\nJOHN DEEBLE\n\nACTING FIRST ASSISTANT SECRETARY\n\nHEALTH BENEFITS DIVISION\n\nDELEGATE OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1357},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration operates exactly within the intended scope of section 85(2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, which authorises the Minister (or delegate) to declare that specific drugs shall not be pharmaceutical benefits. It performs a straightforward administrative delisting of named products without expanding beyond the original statutory purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with no conditional logic","Simple schedule listing only 17 named substances with standard pharmacopoeia references (B.P., B.P.C.)","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the empowering provision (s 85(2AA))","No defined terms or interpretive provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration removes 17 specific medicines from Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, so from 1 April 1988 patients who had them subsidised must pay full commercial prices or seek alternatives. It matters because delisting ends their status as “pharmaceutical benefits” — typically done when cheaper substitutes exist, drugs are obsolete, or funding/policy decisions stop government subsidy."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988","history":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988/history","analysis":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-30-03-1988/documents"}}