Contents
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.
| Commencement information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| The whole of this instrument | 1 October 2026. | 1 October 2026. |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2)Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority#
This instrument is made under subsections 84AAM(3) and 84AAN(3) of the National Health Act 1953.
4 Definitions#
In this instrument:
eligible nurse prescriber has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law has the same meaning as in section 132A of the Act.
nurse prescriber agreement has the same meaning as in section 84AAN of the Act.
scheduled 2, 3, 4 and 8 medicines means medicines that are included in any of Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 8 of the current Poisons Standard (within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989).
7 Conditions on approval as an authorised nurse prescriber#
For the purposes of subsection 84AAN(2) of the Act, the approval of a person as an authorised nurse prescriber is subject to the condition that the authorised nurse prescriber does not, under a nurse prescriber agreement, prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit that could not be prescribed by a PBS prescriber with whom the agreement is made.
Example: An authorised nurse prescriber is in a prescriber agreement with an authorised nurse practitioner. The approval of the authorised nurse prescriber under section 84AAN of the Act is subject to the condition that the authorised nurse prescriber does not, under that prescriber agreement, prescribe any pharmaceutical benefits that the authorised nurse practitioner could not also prescribe.
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