8Method of prescribing pharmaceutical benefits

#### 8 Method of prescribing pharmaceutical benefits (1) An authorised prescriber for a pharmaceutical benefit may write a prescription for supply of the pharmaceutical benefit to an eligible private hospital patient or eligible public hospital patient under this Special Arrangement by completing a section of a medication chart, in accordance with section 41 of the Regulations as modified by this section, that also directs the special arrangement supply of a dose of a chemotherapy drug or of a related pharmaceutical benefit to the patient under the National Health (Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy) Special Arrangement 2024. (2) A medication chart referred to in subsection (1): (a) is not required to be in a form approved under paragraph 41(5)(a) of the Regulations or meet the information requirements approved under paragraph 41(5)(b) of the Regulations; and (b) is taken to be a medication chart for the purposes of the Regulations despite paragraphs 41(4)(a) and (b) of the Regulations. (3) For an electronic medication chart prescription: (a) paragraph 41(2)(c) of the Regulations does not apply; and (b) the authorised prescriber must approve the prescription in the electronic system used to write the prescription; and (c) paragraph 104(3)(b) of the Regulations does not apply.