Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 99AEI

  (1)   This section applies if, under section   99AEH, the Minister revokes or varies a determination under subsection   85(6) in relation to a brand (the delisted brand ) of a pharmaceutical item (the existing item ).

  (2)   Without limiting any power the Minister may otherwise have under this Part, the Minister may:

  (a)   under section   85AD, make or vary a price agreement to increase the agreed price; or

  (b)   under subsection   85B(2), make or vary a determination to increase the determined price; or

  (ba)   under subsection   85B(3), make or vary a determination to increase one or more claimed prices;

for a brand of a pharmaceutical item that has an approved ex - manufacturer price that was reduced because the delisted brand of the existing item was:

  (c)   the new brand of the trigger item referred to in section   99ACB; or

  (d)   the new brand of the trigger combination item referred to in section   99ACD; or

  (e)   the guaranteed brand of the guaranteed item under subsection   99AED(2).

  (3)   If the Minister exercises the power referred to in subsection   (2), then the Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine that:

  (a)   if subsection   99ACB(5) applied to the delisted brand of the existing item--for the purposes of subsection   99ACB(3), subsection   99ACB(5) is taken not to have applied to the delisted brand of the existing item; or

  (b)   if subsection   99ACB(5A) applied to the delisted brand of the existing item--for the purposes of subsection   99ACB(3), subsection   99ACB(5A) is taken not to have applied to the delisted brand of the existing item; or

  (c)   if subsection   99ACD(5) applied to the delisted brand of the existing item--for the purposes of subsection   99ACD(2), subsection   99ACD(5) is taken not to have applied to the delisted brand of the existing item; or

  (d)   if subsection   99ACD(5A) applied to the delisted brand of the existing item--for the purposes of subsection   99ACD(2), subsection   99ACD(5A) is taken not to have applied to the delisted brand of the existing item.

  (4)   If the Minister makes a determination under subsection   (3), the determination has effect on the day specified in the determination, being a day on or after the determination comes into force.