National Health (Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services Program) Special Arrangement 2017
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Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including Chief Executive Medicare.
In this instrument:
Act means the National Health Act 1953.
approved Aboriginal health service means an Aboriginal health service for which an approval is in force under section 9.
approved hospital authority has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
approved pharmacist has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
eligible order has the meaning given by section 11.
eligible pharmaceutical benefit means a ready‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit, other than a pharmaceutical benefit that:
(a) can only be supplied under Part VII of the Act in accordance with a special arrangement under section 100 of the Act; or
(b) can only be supplied under Part VII of the Act under the prescriber bag provisions; or
(c) is referred to in Schedule 8 to the current Poisons Standard (within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989).
Health Secretary means the Secretary of the Department.
medicare number has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
pack quantity has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
PBS prescriber has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
Note: PBS is short for pharmaceutical benefits scheme.
pharmaceutical benefit has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
prescriber bag provisions has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the Act.
ready‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit means a pharmaceutical benefit to which paragraph (d) of the definition of pharmaceutical benefit in subsection 84(1) of the Act applies.
registration number has the meaning given by section 10.
remote area Aboriginal health service prescription has the meaning given by section 12.
remote zone has the meaning given by the Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area Classification, 1991 Census Edition, published by the Department of Primary Industries and Energy and the Department of Human Services and Health, as in force in November 1994.