National Health (Listing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Instrument 2010 (No. PB 108 of 2010)
5Drugs and medicinal preparations to which Part VII applies
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5 Drugs and medicinal preparations to which Part VII applies
(1) For paragraph 85 (2) (a) of the Act, Part VII of the Act applies to:
(a) a drug or medicinal preparation mentioned in the column headed ‘Listed Drug’ in:
(i) Schedule 1; or
(ii) Part 1 of Schedule 2; and
(b) a medicinal preparation composed of 1 or more listed drugs mentioned in subparagraph (a) (ii).
(2) For subparagraph 85(2)(b)(i) of the Act, paragraph 85(2)(b) of the Act applies to a listed drug mentioned in subparagraph (1)(a)(ii).
(3) For subparagraph 85(2)(b)(ii) of the Act, paragraph 85(2)(b) of the Act applies to an additive mentioned in Part 2 of Schedule 2.
Note Part VII of the Act applies to medicinal preparations composed of 1 or more listed drugs mentioned in subsection (2) and 1 or more of the additives mentioned in subsection (3) – see paragraph 85(2)(b) of the Act.
6 Form
For subsection 85 (3) of the Act, the column headed ‘Form’ in Schedule 1 lists the form or forms for a listed drug determined for that drug.