1National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Medication Charts for Complex Authority Required (CAR) and rituximab Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2026

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

PB 14 of 2026

 

National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Medication Charts for Complex Authority Required (CAR) and rituximab Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2026

 

National Health Act 1953

 

I, MARYKA GAUDIO, Acting Assistant Secretary, Community Access Programs Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, delegate of the Minister for Health and Ageing, make this Instrument under subsection 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.

Dated   20 January 2026

MARYKA GAUDIO

Acting Assistant Secretary

Community Access Programs Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement 2021 (PB 27 of 2021) 2

 

 

 

1.       Name

2.            This instrument is the National Health (Highly Specialised Drugs Program) Special Arrangement Amendment (Medication Charts for Complex Authority Required (CAR) and rituximab Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2026.

3.            This instrument may also be cited as PB 14 of 2026.

4.       Commencement

5.            Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument 1 February 2026 1 February 2026

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.