{"id":"F2007B01084","name":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85(2AA) (No. PB 10 of 1995)","slug":"national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":62626,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2007B01084-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Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under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) (No. PB 10 of 1995)","content":"COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA\n\nNational Health Act 1953\n\nPHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS\n\nDECLARATION UNDER SUBSECTION 85 (2AA)\n\nNo. PB 10 of 1995\n\nI, DAVID TREVOR GRAHAM, Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Department of Human Services and Health and Delegate of the Minister for Human Services and Health, having in accordance with subsection 85 (2AB) of the National Health Act 1953 obtained the advice of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, pursuant to subsection 85 (2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, hereby make the following Declaration:\n\n1. This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 August 1995.\n\n2. The drugs and medicinal preparations specified 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\nAdrenaline Hydrochloride\n\nAntazoline Phosphate with Naphazoline Hydrochloride\n\nAntazoline Sulfate with Naphazoline Nitrate\n\nBetamethasone\n\nChloroquine Phosphate\n\nInsulin, Acid\n\nInsulin, Protamine Zinc\n\nNaphazoline Hydrochloride\n\nPhenylephrine Hydrochloride\n\nProchlorperazine Edisylate\n\nZinc Sulfate with Phenylephrine Hydrochloride\n\nDated this nineteenth day of July 1995.\n\nD. GRAHAM\n\nAssistant Secretary\n\nPharmaceutical Benefits Branch\n\nDepartment of Human Services and Health\n\nDelegate of the Minister for Human Services and Health","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2261},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The declaration maintains a narrow, specific scope limited to removing exactly the 11 listed drugs from PBS coverage, consistent with its enabling provision (section 85(2AA) of the National Health Act)."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with no conditional logic or exceptions","No interpretation section or defined terms","Simple schedule listing only 11 chemical substances","Straightforward revocation of existing PBS status without replacement provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration removed 11 specific medicines from Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme effective 1 August 1995, meaning those drugs ceased to be subsidised and patients must pay the full commercial price. \n\nThe delegate from the Department of Health made the change after advice from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, a step typically taken when medicines are outdated, seldom prescribed, or inexpensive enough not to require taxpayer subsidy."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995","history":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995/history","analysis":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-10-of-1995/documents"}}