49Information to be given using Claims Transmission System (Claims Rules Sch 1)

49 Information to be given using Claims Transmission System (Claims Rules Sch 1)

General (1) The table in clause 1 of Schedule 1 to the Claims Rules applies to a pre‑commencement prescription as follows: (a) as if, for the purposes of item 2 of the table, the Authority Prescription Number for the prescription were 00000641; (b) as if, for the purposes of item 8 of the table, the prescription were signed on 1 July 2023; (c) if the authorised nurse practitioner or medical practitioner who wrote the prescription did not write their PBS prescriber number on the prescription—as if, for the purposes of item 28 of the table, that number were written on the prescription; (d) if the authorised nurse practitioner or medical practitioner who wrote the prescription did not write their prescriber ID on the prescription—as if, for the purposes of item 31 of the table, that number were written on the prescription; (e) if the prescription was written in electronic form—as if, for the purposes of item 32 of the table, the prescription were a paper‑based prescription; (f) as if, for the purposes of item 40 of the table, the authorised nurse practitioner or medical practitioner who wrote the prescription had written on the prescription: (i) the words “Streamlined Authority Code”; and (ii) the relevant streamlined authority code included in any circumstances mentioned in an item of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Listing Instrument for the writing of a prescription for a pharmaceutical benefit for the treatment of opioid dependence. Pre‑commencement prescriptions written in electronic form (2) Clause 2 of Schedule 1 to the Claims Rules does not apply to a pre‑commencement prescription written in electronic form.