12When prescriptions are invalid

12  When prescriptions are invalid

  A prescription is not a valid Pharmaceutical benefit if the Medical Practitioner, Authorised Nurse Practitioner or Authorised Midwife:

 (a) except where the prescription is a medication chart prescription, prescribes a Pharmaceutical benefit for a person in respect of whom another prescription for the same benefit has been written on the same day by the same Medical Practitioner, Authorised Nurse Practitioner or Authorised Midwife; or

 (b) prescribes, on the one form, a Pharmaceutical benefit that is a drug of addiction and another Pharmaceutical benefit, and directs that the supply of either Pharmaceutical benefit is to be repeated (but, if no repeats of either item are ordered, the prescription may be accepted provided that this is in accordance with the relevant State or Territory law); or

 (c) prescribes a narcotic drug for the Medical Practitioner, Authorised Nurse Practitioner or Authorised Midwife writing the prescription; or

 (d) prescribes on a Standard Prescription Form an item not listed in the RPBS Schedule or PBS Schedule; or

 (e) prescribes on a Standard Prescription Form a benefit in contravention of any of the restrictions set out in paragraph 7; or

 (f) where the prescription is by an Authorised Nurse Practitioner or Authorised Midwife for an Eligible Person—prescribes a Pharmaceutical benefit that is not available to the Eligible Person under the PBS.

Note: an MPBS prescriber who is an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner may only prescribe a Pharmaceutical benefit listed on the PBS and a prescription by an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner for a Pharmaceutical benefit that is not available on the PBS is not recognised under the Scheme, even if the Pharmaceutical benefit is available under the Scheme on the prescription of, say, an Approved Medical Practitioner.