12Authority required procedures — submission of prescription

12 Authority required procedures — submission of prescription

 (1) The authorised prescriber must:

 (a) deliver or post to the Chief Executive Medicare a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit, prepared and signed by the authorised prescriber:

 (i) in a form approved by the Secretary and completed by the authorised prescriber in ink in his or her own handwriting; or

 (ii) in a form, prepared by means of a computer, that is in accordance with the form approved by the Secretary under subparagraph (i); or

 (iii) in a form, prepared by means of a computer, approved in writing for the purpose by the Secretary and in the format approved in writing by the Secretary; or

 (iv) by a method approved in writing by the Secretary; or

 (b) submit to the Chief Executive Medicare, by telephone, details of a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit prepared and signed by the authorised prescriber in accordance with subparagraph (a) (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv); or

 (c) if the authorised prescriber has attempted give details of the prescription to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with paragraph (b) but has been unable to do so because the telephone system established by the Chief Executive Medicare for the provision of such authorisations was unavailable — submit the prescription in accordance with the instructions in an emergency telephone message provided to the authorised prescriber by the Chief Executive Medicare; or

 (d) submit to the Chief Executive Medicare, by means of an electronic communication of a kind approved in writing by the Chief Executive Medicare, details of a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit prepared and signed by the authorised prescriber in accordance with subparagraph (a) (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv).

 (2) If a circumstance mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 4 for a circumstances code applying to the pharmaceutical benefit includes Compliance with Written Authority Required procedures, the authorised prescriber must submit a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with paragraph (1) (a).

 (3) If a circumstance mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 4 for a circumstances code applying to the pharmaceutical benefit includes Compliance with Telephone Authority Required procedures, the authorised prescriber must submit a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with paragraph (1) (b) or (c).

 (4) If a circumstance mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 4 for a circumstances code applying to the pharmaceutical benefit includes Compliance with Written or Telephone Authority Required procedures, the authorised prescriber must submit a prescription for the supply of the pharmaceutical benefit to the Chief Executive Medicare in accordance with paragraph (1) (a), (b) or (c).