Validity Being Tested Of Pharmaceutical Benefits Act
Sydney. July 22 (Rec. 11.55 p.m.)— The Commonwealth has given the British Medical Association an undertaking that doctors will not be prosecuted for non compliance with a section of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act concerning the ordinary use of doctors’ prescription forms, pending determination of the validity, or otherwise of the Act. The Government’s assurance was given following a decision of the B.M.A. to. test the legislation in the High Court.
The general secretary of the B.M.A. (Dr. J. G. Hunter) said his association had been advised by its counsel that legislation concerning the Act was likely to be invalid. The Commonwealth’s undertaking had been given to obviate the necessity for the B.M.A. to seek an injunction restraining the Commonwealth from enforcing the Act pending the High Court’s decision. As a result, medical practitioners* could now continue to prescribe on their own forms, as in the past, pending the High Court’s decision.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 July 1949, Page 5
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