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National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960
58Savings provision—medication chart prescriptions for persons receiving treatment in or at a residential care service
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#### 58 Savings provision—medication chart prescriptions for persons receiving treatment in or at a residential care service
(1) A PBS prescriber may write a medication chart prescription during the period of 2 years starting on 1 April 2015 in accordance with regulations 19 and 19AA as in force immediately before that date.
> Note: Before 1 April 2015, a medication chart prescription could only be written to prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit for a person receiving treatment in or at a residential care service.
(2) For subregulation (1), a reference in regulation 19AA (as in force immediately before 1 April 2015) to a condition determined under paragraph 93A(2)(b) of the Act is a reference to any condition determined under that paragraph that applies under the National Health (Residential Medication Chart) (Repeal) Determination 2015 for the purposes of this regulation.
(3) These Regulations (other than regulation 31), as in force immediately before 1 April 2015, continue to apply in relation to a medication chart prescription written under subregulation (1).
> Note: For the application of regulation 31 in relation to a medication chart prescription written under subregulation (1), see subregulations 60(3) and (4).