18Maximum number of repeats — Schedule 1

18 Maximum number of repeats — Schedule 1

 (1) For paragraph 85A (2) (b) of the Act, the maximum number of occasions an authorised prescriber may, in 1 prescription, direct that the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit mentioned in Schedule 1 be repeated is the number in the column in Schedule 1 headed ‘Number of Repeats’ for the pharmaceutical benefit and the authorised prescriber.

 (2) If at least 1 purposes code is mentioned in the column in Schedule 1 headed ‘Purposes’ for the pharmaceutical benefit, the number of repeats mentioned in the column in Schedule 1 headed ‘Number of Repeats’ is the maximum for the particular purposes mentioned in Schedule 4 for each purposes code.

 (3) If no purposes code is mentioned in the column headed ‘Purposes’, the number of repeats mentioned in the column headed ‘Number of Repeats’ is the maximum for all purposes, other than a purpose for which a different maximum is mentioned for the same pharmaceutical benefit.

 (4) For this section, the pharmaceutical benefit is the brand of the listed drug mentioned in Schedule 1: