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(c) Materials allowed only when included in a Medical Prescription as Ingredients to be dispensed in Combination with Pharmaceutical Requirements, and then only to the Extent (if any) therein specified.-Food (as defined in the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908); distilled water; local anaesthetic, general anaesthetic; spiritus coloniensis, chloroform, ether; ethyl alcohol of a total quantity not exceeding 2 fluid ounces of alcohol (90 per cent. by volume); intoxicating liquor as defined in the Licensing Act, 1908, comprising not more than 12 per cent. by volume of the resultant mixture.
RULES FOR STANDARD
6. No claim by a contractor on the Fund in respect of the supply of pharmaceutical requirements shall be allowed unless the requirements comply:-
(a) With any standard prescribed by regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908:
(b) In the absence of any such standard, with any standard prescribed by the N.Z.F.:
(c) In the absence of any such standards as aforesaid, with any standard prescribed by the B.P.:
(d) In the absence of any of the foregoing standards, then with any standard prescribed by. the B.P.C.
PRICE RULES
7. (1) Where the price of any pharmaceutical requirement is specified in the N.Z.F., a contractor claiming on the fund in respect thereof shall be paid that price.
(2) Where the price of any pharmaceutical requirement is not so specified, a contractor claiming on the Fund in respect thereof shall be paid therefor the price computed in accordance with the rules for pricing set out in the N.Z.F.
CLAIMS ON THE FUND
8. Pursuant to Regulation 14, a contractor may submit claims for payment for pharmaceutical requirements supplied in respect of half-monthly periods, but in every case where a claim is first received after the expiration of three months from the end of the period covered therein, then, unless the contractor satisfies the Medical Officer of Health that he has a reasonable ground for his delay in submitting the claim, there shall be deducted from the amount thereof, in addition to any other discount to be allowed thereon, a further amount equal to ten per cent. (10 per cent.) of the net amount of such claim.
9. Maximum Quantity : Extended Order and Bulk Supply.- In pursuance of any one medical prescription and one "repeat" thereof endorsed thereon a contractor may claim on the Fund in respect of pharmaceutical requirements supplied to a person entitled thereto in quantity sufficient to provide that person with treatment for a period not exceeding thirty days, but, except as provided in the next succeeding clause hereof, a claim for any quantity in excess thereof shall not be made on the Fund.
10. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding clause, where a medical practitioner certifies in writing, either in the original medical prescription or in a confidential application addressed to a Medical Officer of Health, that the person to whom the pharmaceutical requirements is to be supplied is suffering from a chronic complaint which does not require regular medical supervision or that he is living in such isolated circumstances as to render impracticable the normal mode of supply of pharmaceutical requirements, and also that in the opinion of the medical practitioner no danger is involved in the use thereof without medical supervision, such Medical Officer of Health may authorize a supply of such pharmaceutical requirement up to a quantity sufficient to supply such person for a period not exceeding four months.
(2) In any such case a contractor on return of the medical prescription concerned with the authority of the Medical Officer of Health endorsed thereon may supply the pharmaceutical requirements and claim on the Fund accordingly.
11. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, for the purpose of supplying the anticipated pharmaceutical requirements of the inmates or members of a licensed hospital for a period not exceeding four months, any medical practitioner may, in the form of an application addressed to the Medical Officer of Health, prescribe for the members of such institution as a group in the name of the person in charge thereof.
12. A contractor who supplies pharmaceutical requirements in accordance with a medical prescription of the kind described in clause 11 hereof, shall be entitled to claim on the Fund therefor, provided the following conditions have been complied with, namely: the medical prescription shall be signed and dated by the medical practitioner prescribing the same, be authorized by a Medical Officer of Health and endorsed with his signature, and countersigned and dated by the person in charge of the institution on receiving such pharmaceutical requirements, in proof of the supply thereof by the contractor.
13. (1) The pharmaceutical requirements comprised in any medical prescription of the kind described in clause 11 hereof, shall, until they are administered to the individual members of such institution, be kept in a suitable room or cupboard on the premises of such institution, which room or cupboard shall be kept locked by the person in charge of the institution, except during the time it is occupied or used by him or his responsible deputy.
(2) Such pharmaceutical requirements shall be administered by the person in charge of such institution or his responsible deputy solely for the benefit of the individual members thereof from time to time as and when they require the same.
MIDWIFERY ORDER
14. For the purposes of Regulation 8 of the regulations, the materials or preparations described in the September, 1946, addendum to the N.Z.F., shall be deemed to be authorized midwifery pharmaceutical requirements, and contractors may claim on the Fund in respect of the supply of the same to the extent therein set out.
As witness my hand, this 1st day of September, 1946.
A. H. NORMEYER, Minister of Health.
Notice regarding Payment for Pharmaceutical Supplies under the Social Security Act, 1938
ADDENDUM dated September, 1946, to the New Zealand Formulary, issued by direction of the Honourable the Minister of Health, pursuant to section 90 of the Social Security Act, 1938, and effective on and after 1st September, 1946.
PART 1.-Substances and Preparations, including Authorized Midwifery Pharmaceutical Requirements excluded or included, and standards for preparations so included.
PART 2.-Price Rules under Clause 7 of the Drug Tariff.
PART 1.-NEW ZEALAND FORMULARY
TABLE OF MATERIALS WHICH ARE UNCONDITIONALLY EXCLUDED UNDER PARAGRAPH (a) OF CLAUSE 5 OF THE DRUG TARIFF
(a) Any drug, medicine, or medicinal preparation if it appears from the prescription or is otherwise known to the contractor that such drug, medicine, or medicinal preparation is not immediately required for the treatment of the person for whom the prescription has been given or has not been prescribed for the sole use of that person.
(b) Any proprietary preparation other than proprietary forms of any substances or preparations expressly included in the table of materials allowed under the provisions of paragraph (b) of clause 5 of the Drug Tariff.
NOTE (i).-The exclusion of proprietary preparations from the expression "pharmaceutical requirements" applies in every case where a proprietary preparation is specified in the prescription, and also applies in cases where, though a proprietary preparation is not actually specified, a proprietary preparation is in fact supplied -e.g., compound tablets which are not identical with a formula included in the B.P., B.P.C., or N.Z. Formulary.
NOTE (ii).-See also the pricing rules in the N.Z. Formulary relating to proprietary forms of pharmaceutical requirements.
(c) Substances and preparations described in any of the following principal and sub-monographs of the B.P.C.:-
Catha-B.P.C., page 1048.
Chicle-B.P.C., page 499.
Corpus Luteum (Synonym : Desiccated Corpus Luteum)- B.P.C., page 360.
Mate-B.P.C., page 1048.
Oxygen-B.P.C., page 758.
Peptonum bovinum (i.e., dietetic peptone)-B.P.C., page 781.
Pethidine hydrochloride-B.P.C. (Seventh Supplement), page, 32.
Pholedrine sulphate-B.P.C. (Seventh Supplement), page 34.
Pituitary (Anterior Lobe) Extract-B.P.C., page 437.
Propamidine isethionate-B.P.C. (Seventh Supplement), page 36.
Potassium fluoride-B.P.C., page 981.
Psyllium-B.P.C., page 857.
Rosa fructus-B.P.C., page 909, and B.P.C. (Fourth Supplement), page 53.
Stanni oxidum-B.P.C., page 1123.
Tabacum-B.P.C., page 1036.
Thea-B.P.C., page 1047.
Thiouracil-B.P.C. (Seventh Supplement), page 53.
Thymus-B.P.C., page 1059.
Vitamin A and D concentrates-B.P.C., page 721.
Vitamin B concentrates-B.P.C., page 304.
Vitamin C concentrates-B.P.C., page 1024.
Vitamin K-B.P.C. (Third Supplement), page 39.
(d) Reagents included in Appendix VI to the B.P.C., pages 1559 to 1577.
TABLE OF MATERIALS ALLOWED UNDER PARAGRAPH (b) OF CLAUSE 5 OF THE DRUG TARIFF
Aluminium hydroxide gel complying with the standard defined in the N.Z. Formulary.
Dried aluminium hydroxide gel complying with the standard defined in the N.Z. Formulary.
Benedict's solution (qualitative).
Colloidal calamine
Colloidal Kaolin
Colloidal zinc oxide J Complying with the standard defined in the N.Z. Formulary.
Ergometrine malate and other salts of ergometrine.
Extract of ergot, liquid, B.P. 1914.
Heparin solution for injection.
Globin Insulin.
Liver products without additional substances for administration by injection.
Mercuramide with theophylline (injection and tablets).
Mersalyl with theophylline (tablets).
Sodium aurothiomalate.
Pheniodol.