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Part 3Other roles
Pharmac

69Functions of Pharmac

  1. The functions of Pharmac are—

  2. to maintain and manage a pharmaceutical schedule that applies consistently throughout New Zealand, including determining eligibility and criteria for the provision of subsidies; and
    1. to manage incidental matters arising out of paragraph (a), including in exceptional circumstances providing for subsidies for the supply of pharmaceuticals not on the pharmaceutical schedule; and
      1. to engage as it sees fit, but within its operational budget, in research to meet the objectives set out in section 68(1)(a); and
        1. to promote the responsible use of pharmaceuticals; and
          1. to perform any other functions it is for the time being given under any enactment, or authorised to perform by the Minister by written notice to the board of Pharmac after consultation with it.

            1. Pharmac must perform its functions within the amount of funding provided to it and in accordance with its statement of intent (including the statement of forecast service performance) and (subject to section 66) any directions given under the Crown Entities Act 2004.