sec.248Sending and keeping particular prescriptions during special arrangement period

sec.248 Sending and keeping particular prescriptions during special arrangement period

This section applies if, during the special arrangement period, a prescriber gives a digital copy of a paper prescription for an S4 medicine, other than a diversion-risk medicine, to a dispenser. The prescriber is taken to have complied with section 84(4) if the prescriber keeps the paper prescription for a period of 2 years after giving the dispenser a digital copy of the paper prescription. In this section— special arrangement period means the period— starting on the commencement of this section; and ending at the end of the day the special arrangement the National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020 (Cwlth) is repealed or expires. (sec.248-ssec.1) This section applies if, during the special arrangement period, a prescriber gives a digital copy of a paper prescription for an S4 medicine, other than a diversion-risk medicine, to a dispenser. (sec.248-ssec.2) The prescriber is taken to have complied with section 84(4) if the prescriber keeps the paper prescription for a period of 2 years after giving the dispenser a digital copy of the paper prescription. (sec.248-ssec.3) In this section— special arrangement period means the period— starting on the commencement of this section; and ending at the end of the day the special arrangement the National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020 (Cwlth) is repealed or expires.

• (a) starting on the commencement of this section; and
• (b) ending at the end of the day the special arrangement the National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020 (Cwlth) is repealed or expires.