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National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85 (2AA) (No. PB 18 of 1994)

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This notice, effective 1 December 1994, removes nine specific medications from Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), meaning those drugs are no longer subsidised by taxpayers.

As a result affected patients must pay the full commercial price; the Minister (or delegate), advised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, made the delisting typically for reasons such as obsolescence, safety concerns, or poor cost‑effectiveness.

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National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85 (2AA) (No. PB 18 of 1994)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

National Health Act 1953

PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS

DECLARATION UNDER SUBSECTION 85 (2AA)

No. PB 18 of 1994

I, DAVID TREVOR GRAHAM, Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch, Department of Human Services and Health and Delegate of the Minister for Human Services and Health, 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:

This Declaration shall come into operation on 1 December 1994.
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.

THE SCHEDULE

Amylobarbitone Sodium

Chlormethiazole Edisylate

Cyclopenthiazide

Dextran 70 with Glucose

Diazoxide

Methsuximide

Phensuximide

“PK AID I”

Sodium Lactate with Sodium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Chloride and Anhydrous Glucose

Dated this sixteenth day of November 1994.

D. GRAHAM

Assistant Secretary

Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch

Department of Human Services and Health

Delegate of the Minister for Human Services and Health

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1 National Health Act 1953 - Declaration under subsection 85 (2AA) (No. PB 18 of 1994)