11Authority required procedures

11 Authority required procedures

 (1) This section applies to a pharmaceutical benefit if the circumstances mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 4 for a circumstances code mentioned in Schedule 1 for the pharmaceutical benefit include any of the following:

 (a) Compliance with Authority Required procedures;

 (b) Compliance with Written Authority Required procedures;

 (c) Compliance with Telephone Authority Required procedures;

 (d) Compliance with Written or Telephone Authority Required procedures.

 (2) A prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit must be:

 (a) submitted by the authorised prescriber to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with section 12; and

 (b) authorised by the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with section 13.