Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 134

             (1)  Where:

                     (a)  the authority conferred upon a medical practitioner by section 88 is suspended or revoked; or

                     (b)  the approval of a dental practitioner as a participating dental practitioner under section 84A is suspended or revoked; or

                     (c)  the approval of an optometrist as an authorised optometrist under section 84AAB is suspended or revoked; or

                     (d)  the approval of a person as an authorised midwife under section 84AAF is suspended or revoked; or

                   (da)  the approval of a person as an authorised nurse practitioner under section 84AAJ is suspended or revoked;

the person to whom the authority or approval relates shall not, during the period of suspension or after the revocation takes effect, write a prescription for the purposes of Part VII, and an approved pharmacist, approved medical practitioner or approved hospital authority shall not supply for the purposes of that Part a pharmaceutical benefit on a prescription written by the person to whom the authority or approval relates.

             (2)  Where the approval of a medical practitioner under section 92 is suspended or revoked, that medical practitioner shall not, during the period of suspension or after the revocation takes effect, supply a pharmaceutical benefit for the purposes of Part VII.

             (3)  Upon the revocation of an authority or approval referred to in subsection (4), the person to whom the authority or approval relates must deliver to a person specified by the Secretary all drugs and medicinal preparations in the first-mentioned person's possession which he or she has obtained for the purposes of Part VII.

             (4)  The authorities and approvals are as follows:

                     (a)  an authority conferred upon a medical practitioner by section 88 or 93;

                     (b)  an approval of a person as an authorised midwife under section 84AAF;

                     (c)  an approval of a person as an authorised nurse practitioner under section 84AAJ;

                     (d)  an authority conferred upon an authorised midwife or an authorised nurse practitioner by section 93AA.

Penalty:  $5,000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.