Second

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2013

BILL 10

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

SUSAN SULLIVAN

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend

section 19 of

the Pharmaceutical Services Act to

enhance the power of the minister to remove a drug from the formulary where the

manufacturer does not comply with pricing requirements.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES

ACT

Analysis

S.19 Amdt.

Formulary

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cP-12.01

as amended

1. Subsection 19(4) of the Pharmaceutical Services Act is amended by adding immediately after

paragraph (

a) the following:

(a.1) the manufacturer does not comply with pricing

requirements set out in the regulations;

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