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NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 86

Entitlement to receive pharmaceutical benefits

  (1)   Subject to this Part, a person who:

  (a)   is, or is to be treated as, an eligible person within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1973 ; and

  (b)   is receiving:

  (i)   medical treatment by a medical practitioner; or

  (ii)   dental treatment by a participating dental practitioner; or

  (iii)   optometrical treatment by an authorised optometrist; or

  (iv)   midwifery treatment by an authorised midwife; or

  (v)   nurse practitioner treatment by an authorised nurse practitioner;

is entitled to receive pharmaceutical benefits under this Part without the payment or provision of money or other consideration other than a charge made in accordance with section   87.

Residency

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(a), while a person is working outside Australia as a Commonwealth officer, he or she is taken to reside in Australia.

  (3)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(a), while a person is working outside Australia as a State or Territory officer, he or she is taken to reside in Australia.

  (4)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(a), while the spouse, or a dependent child, of a person covered by subsection   (2) or (3) is outside Australia accompanying that person, the spouse or child is taken to reside in Australia.

Note:   Paragraph   (1)(a) refers to a person being an eligible person within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1973 . Under that Act an Australian resident is an eligible person. A person must reside in Australia to be an Australian resident.

Definitions

  (5)   In this section:

"dependent child" has the same meaning as in section   84B.

"spouse" has the same meaning as in section   84B.


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