5Usual PBS demand

5 Usual PBS demand

(1) The usual PBS demand for a brand of a pharmaceutical item for a month in a data collection period for that brand is the number of packs of the brand supplied during the data collection period (the reference period) before the previous data collection period for the brand divided by the number of months in the reference period. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1) the number of packs of the brand supplied during a data collection period is taken to be: (a) the number of packs of the brand supplied as pharmaceutical benefits during that period; and (b) adjusted as if the size of the pack equals the pricing quantity of the brand. (3) For the purposes of this section, a brand of pharmaceutical item to which section 99ADHC and therefore 99AEKA of the Act applies, but to which section 99ADD of the Act does not apply, is treated as if data collection periods applied to the brand, and as if the start day for the first data collection period for the brand was the day on which that brand was first determined under subsection 85(6) of the Act.