Entitlement to receive pharmaceutical benefits
86 Entitlement to receive pharmaceutical benefits
Subject to this Part, a person who:
is, or is to be treated as, an eligible person within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act 1973; and
is receiving:
medical treatment by a medical practitioner; or
dental treatment by a participating dental practitioner; or
optometrical treatment by an authorised optometrist; or
midwifery treatment by an authorised midwife; or
nurse practitioner treatment by an authorised nurse practitioner; or
nursing treatment by an authorised nurse prescriber;
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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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