27Submissions in Committee Secretariat category

27 Submissions in Committee Secretariat category

(1) A submission is in the Committee Secretariat category if: (a) subsection (2), (3) or (4) applies to the submission; and (b) the submission is not in Category 1, Category 2, Category 3 or Category 4. New or varied listed drugs, medicinal preparations and designated vaccines that pose no greater risk (2) This subsection applies to a submission if: (a) it includes a request that the Committee recommend to, or advise, the Minister to exercise a power referred to in item 1.2, 2.2, 2.5 or 2.6 of the table in Schedule 1; and (b) it demonstrates that there is no increase in risk to a patient associated with using a listed drug, medicinal preparation or designated vaccine as a result of the proposed exercise of the power. Pharmaceutical benefits that can no longer be supplied early (3) This subsection applies to a submission that includes a request that the Committee recommend to the Minister to exercise the power referred to in item 2.10 of the table in Schedule 1. New brand of glucose indicator pharmaceutical item (4) This subsection applies to a submission for the Minister to exercise a power referred to in item 3.1 of the table in Schedule 1 in relation to a medicinal preparation that is a pharmaceutical item that either includes a glucose indicator or has the form of a glucose indicator.