{"id":"F2005L03722","name":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85(2AA) (No. PB 29 of 2005)","slug":"national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":39402,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2005L03722-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85(2AA) (No. PB 29 of 2005)","content":"COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA\n\nNational Health Act 1953\n\nPHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS\n\nDECLARATION UNDER SUBSECTION 85(2AA)\n\nNo. PB 29 of 2005\n\nI, JOAN CORBETT, Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Department of Health and Ageing and Delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, 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 commences on 1 December 2005.\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\nAcetazolamide Sodium\n\nDemeclocycline Hydrochloride\n\nNicotinic Acid\n\nOestrogens—Conjugated and Oestrogens—Conjugated with\n\nMedroxyprogesterone Acetate\n\nProcainamide Hydrochloride\n\nSpectinomycin Hydrochloride\n\nTetracycline Hydrochloride (buffered)\n\nAmmonia Spirit, Aromatic BP\n\nCetostearyl Alcohol BP\n\nChlorinated Lime BP\n\nGentian Infusion, Compound, Concentrated BP\n\nHydrochloric Acid, Dilute BP\n\nIpecacuanha Tincture BP\n\nKaolin, Light BP\n\nKaolin, Light (Natural) BP\n\nOpium Tincture BP\n\nOrange Tincture BP\n\nParaffin Ointment (white) BP\n\nParaffin Ointment (yellow) BP 1968\n\nDated this twenty third day of November 2005.\n\nJOAN CORBETT\n\nAssistant Secretary\n\nPharmaceutical Benefits Branch\n\nDepartment of Health and Ageing\n\nDelegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2029},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The declaration operates precisely within the statutory authority of section 85(2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, which empowers the Minister to declare that specific drugs cease to be pharmaceutical benefits. It removes 17 listed items from the PBS without expanding beyond this original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision with immediate effect (no conditional triggers)","Straightforward schedule listing only 17 specific items by chemical name","No exceptions, transitional provisions, or nested definitions","Minimal cross-referencing limited to section 85(2AA) and Part VII of the parent Act"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration removes 17 named medicines from Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme effective 1 December 2005, so those drugs (including certain antibiotics, a heart drug, some hormone therapies, other prescription agents and several BP compounding ingredients) are no longer subsidised.  \n\nPatients can still get prescriptions but must pay full private prices or switch to alternatives, a change aimed at medicines considered obsolete, superseded or not cost‑effective."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005","history":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005/history","analysis":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/national-health-act-1953-declaration-under-subsection-85-2aa-no-pb-29-of-2005/documents"}}