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National Health Amendment (Improved Monitoring of Entitlements to Pharmaceutical Benefits) Act 2000
No. 146, 2000
National Health Amendment (Improved Monitoring of Entitlements to Pharmaceutical Benefits) Act 2000
No. 146, 2000
An Act to amend the National Health Act 1953 to improve the monitoring of entitlements to pharmaceutical benefits, and for related purposes
Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s)..................................
Schedule 1—Amendment of the National Health Act 1953
Schedule 2—Further amendment of the National Health Act 1953
National Health Amendment (Improved Monitoring of Entitlements to Pharmaceutical Benefits) Act 2000
No. 146, 2000
An Act to amend the National Health Act 1953 to improve the monitoring of entitlements to pharmaceutical benefits, and for related purposes
[Assented to 11 December 2000]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the National Health Amendment (Improved Monitoring of Entitlements to Pharmaceutical Benefits) Act 2000.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedule 2 commences on 1 January 2001.
3 Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the National Health Act 1953
1 Subsection 84(1) Insert:
communicated prescription means a prescription that is communicated to an approved pharmacist in the circumstances and manner set out in regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 89(a).
1A Subsection 84(1) Insert:
CTS claim means a claim made to the Health Insurance Commission using the procedures of the Claims Transmission System provided for in section 99AAA of the National Health Act 1953.
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