Commonwealth legislation

National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) (Repeal) Determination 2015 (PB 25 of 2015)

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

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Commonwealth

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This instrument repeals the National Health determination that paid doctors to keep and dispense emergency “prescriber bag” medicines. It removes the dedicated government subsidy that helped GPs and specialists maintain on‑hand emergency drugs, so while clinicians may still hold such medicines, the specific funding mechanism supporting those stocks has been discontinued—affecting doctors who relied on the payments and patients who received emergency doses directly.

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National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) (Repeal) Determination 2015 (PB 25 of 2015)

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PB 25 of 2015

National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) (Repeal) Determination 20151

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960

I, FELICITY McNEILL, First Assistant Secretary, Pharmaceutical Benefits Division, Department of Health, delegate of the Minister for Health, make this instrument under regulation 18 of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960.

Dated 26 March 2015

FELICITY McNEILL

First Assistant Secretary

Pharmaceutical Benefits Division

Department of Health

1 Name of Instrument

(1) This instrument is the National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) (Repeal) Determination 2015.

(2) This instrument may also be cited as PB 25 of 2015.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 April 2015.

3 Revocation

The National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) Determination 2012 (PB 92 of 2012) is repealed.

Note

Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.

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1 National Health (Payments for prescriber bag supplies) (Repeal) Determination 2015 (PB 25 of 2015)