23Extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit comprising vehicle specified in prescription under particular name, etc

23 Extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit comprising vehicle specified in prescription under particular name, etc

(1) If an extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit comprises a vehicle that is specified in the prescription under a particular name and an additional specified ingredient or ingredients, the Commonwealth price is to be calculated under this section. (2) If a vehicle is a single liquid ingredient and 1 or more other ingredients are added: (a) for calculating the Commonwealth price, any displacement of the vehicle by solids is to be disregarded; and (b) the Commonwealth price for the pharmaceutical benefit as a whole is to be calculated under section 18. (3) If a vehicle is compounded from 2 or more ingredients and 1 or more other ingredients are added: (a) any displacement of the vehicle by solids is to be disregarded for pricing purposes; and (b) the amounts calculated, under sections 21, 22 and 23, for each of the ingredients is the sum of: (i) the price of each ingredient of the vehicle; and (ii) the price of each ingredient that is added to the vehicle. (4) In this section:

vehicle means a substance that has little or no medicinal action and is used as a medium for an active ingredient.