9Supply of pharmaceutical benefits

9 Supply of pharmaceutical benefits

(1) An approved supplier may supply a pharmaceutical benefit under this Special Arrangement to a person receiving residential care in an approved residential care home if the prescription for the pharmaceutical benefit was created using a transitional conformant electronic medication chart system and was made available to the approved supplier, before the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied. (2) Sections 45, 47 and 51 of the Regulations apply to the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit by an approved supplier under this Special Arrangement, with the following modifications: (a) a reference to a medication chart prescription is taken to be a reference to an electronic medication order; (b) section 45 applies as if: (i) it required the approved supplier, or a person authorised for the purpose by the approved supplier, to verify in the electronic medication order that the pharmaceutical benefit has been supplied and the date on which it was supplied; and (ii) paragraph 45(2)(c) were omitted; (c) a reference in section 51 to writing “immediate supply necessary” on the prescription is taken to be a reference to including those words in the electronic medication order.