1National Health (Paperless Prescribing, Dispensing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

National Health (Paperless Prescribing, Dispensing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2025

I, Sam Peascod, Assistant Secretary, Digital and Service Design Branch, make the following special arrangement.

Dated 25 March 2025   

Sam Peascod

Digital and Service Design Branch

Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division

Health Resourcing Group

Department of Health and Aged Care

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Pharmaceutical Benefits covered by this Special Arrangement

6  Application of Part VII of the Act

7  Prescribing of pharmaceutical benefits

8  Supply of pharmaceutical benefits

9  Claims for supply of pharmaceutical benefit

 

 

1  Name

(1) This instrument is the National Health (Paperless Prescribing, Dispensing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2025.

  (2) This Special Arrangement may also be cited as PB 35 of 2025

2  Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

• Commencement information
• Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
• Provisions Commencement Date/Details
• 1. The whole of this instrument 1 April 2025. 1 April 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 100(1) of the National Health Act 1953.

4  Definitions