Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I move amendment (1) on sheet 3374:

(1) Page 40 (after line 4), after Schedule 3, insert:

Schedule 3A — Special arrangements for pharmaceutical benefits in places of detention

National Health Act 1953

1 After subsection 100(1)

Insert:

(1AA) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister must, by legislative instrument, make special arrangements for, or in relation to, providing that an adequate supply of pharmaceutical benefits will be available to persons who are in prison or another place of detention.

(1AB) The first instrument made under subsection (1AA) must be made by the end of the period of 12 months beginning on the day this subsection commences.

2 At the end of subsections 100(2) and (3)

Add "or (1AA)".