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National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under sub-section 85(2AA) (18/07/1988)

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This declaration removes 15 specific medications from Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme effective 1 August 1988, meaning those drugs will no longer be government-subsidised.

Patients who still need these treatments must pay full private prices, increasing out-of-pocket costs. The change typically reflects obsolescence, low use, or replacement by safer/cheaper alternatives, but can materially affect anyone dependent on the delisted medicines.

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National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under sub-section 85(2AA) (18/07/1988)

View image in the official sourceCOMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953
PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS
DECLARATION UNDER SUB-SECTION 85(2AA)

I, JOHN STEWART DEEBLE, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Health Benefits Division, Department of Community Services and Health and Delegate of the Minister of State for Community Services and Health, pursuant to sub-section 85(2AA) of the National Health Act 1953, hereby make the following Declaration:

This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 August 1988.
The drugs and medicinal preparations contained 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.

THE SCHEDULE

Aluminium Sodium Polyhydroxy Monocarbonate Hexitol Complex

Aluminium Sodium Silicate

Biperiden Lactate Injection B.P.

Chloramine B.P.

Dipyridamole Tablets B.P.

Insect Allergen Extract – Bull Ant

Insect Allergen Extract – Jumper Ant

Insect Allergen Extract – Mosquito

Maldison

Nalidixic Acid Mixture B.P.

Penicillamine B.P.

Pyrimethamine B.P. with Dapsone B.P.

Pyrimethamine B.P. with Sulfadoxine B.P.

Squill Oxymel B.P.

Dated this 18th day of July 1988.

View image in the official sourceJOHN DEEBLE

ACTING FIRST ASSISTANT SECRETARY

HEALTH BENEFITS DIVISION

DELEGATE OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH

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1 National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under sub-section 85(2AA) (18/07/1988)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953
PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS
DECLARATION UNDER SUB-SECTION 85(2AA)

This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 August 1988.
The drugs and medicinal preparations contained 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.