National Health (Entitlement to Pharmaceutical Benefits—Special Evidentiary Categories) Determination 2017 (PB 83 of 2017) (Cth)

PB 83 of 2017

National Health (Entitlement to Pharmaceutical Benefits—Special Evidentiary Categories) Determination 2017 I, Louise Clarke, as delegate of the Minister for Health, make the following determination.

Dated 27 September 2017

Louise Clarke Acting First Assistant Secretary Technology Assessment and Access Division Department of Health

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedules 5 Definitions 6 Purpose of this instrument Part 2—Classes of persons 7 Determination of classes Part 3—Matters of which approved suppliers must be satisfied 8 Eligible persons requiring drugs or medicinal preparations in an emergency 9 Foreign persons covered by reciprocal health care agreements 10 Persons without a medicare number who a PBS prescriber identifies as entitled to pharmaceutical benefits 11 Persons without a medicare number who an approved supplier considers are entitled to pharmaceutical benefits 12 Eligible persons requiring drugs or medicinal preparations as a matter of clinical urgency 13 Persons for whom an inapplicable medicare number is shown on a seemingly valid medicare card or document Part 4—Procedure for allocation of special numbers 14 Allocating special numbers Schedule 1—Repeals National Health (Entitlement to Pharmaceutical Benefits — Special Evidentiary Categories) Determination 2001

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name (1) This instrument is the National Health (Entitlement to Pharmaceutical Benefits—Special Evidentiary Categories) Determination 2017. (2) This instrument may also be cited as PB 83 of 2017.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.