SCHEDULESCHEDULE

SCHEDULE

4. Title

retain, adding at the end:

(Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006

Note: the purpose of this provision is to ensure a part of the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) as incorporated in the Act is retained to ensure the RPBS is modified and not substituted.

5. All provisions other than the Title:

substitute:

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Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

Section 18

Repatriation Commission

CONTENTS

1. Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.............................6

2. Purpose of the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.................6

Part 1 — Interpretation.....................................................6

3A. Notification of certain matters in the Explanatory Notes.....................9

3B. Department to notify of certain matters as agent of the Commission...........9

Part 2 — Prescribing of Benefits Procedure by Medical Practitioners..............9

4.. Prior Approval......................................................9

6. Restrictions........................................................9

7. Prescribing provisions................................................11

8. Application of PBS Schedule restrictions and RPBS Schedule restrictions.......11

9. Prescriptions to conform with State or Territory Law.......................11

10. Form of prescriptions................................................11

11. When prescriptions are invalid.........................................11

12. Maximum quantity and repeats allowed..................................12

13. Prescribing outside the RPBS Schedule or PBS Schedule....................12

14. Medical Practitioner subject to this Scheme...............................12

Part 3 — Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits....................................13

15. Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits — Procedure by Community Pharmacists....13

16. Substitution of lesser priced alternative brand of drug.......................13

17. Community Pharmacist to be satisfied as to entitlement.....................13