{"id":"F2012L00697","name":"Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012","slug":"social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":88938,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2012L00697-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nSocial Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012\n\nSocial Security Act 1991\n\nI, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform, acting under paragraph 917C(3)(b) of the Social Security Act 1991 make this Specification.\n\nDated 21st March 2012\n\nJ Macklin\n\nMinister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform\n\n1 Name of Specification\n\nThis Specification is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012.\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Specification commences on 18 June 2012.\n\n3 Definition\n\nIn this Specification:\n\nAct means the Social Security Act 1991.\n\n4 Medical conditions\n\nEach medical condition specified in Schedule 1 is a specified medical condition for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(b) of the Act.\n\n  \n\n> Note: Schedule 1 Medical conditions\n\n> Note: Spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level\n\n> Note: Stroke\n\n> Note: Brain injury\n\n> Note: A neurodegenerative disorder\n\n> Note: The muscular dystrophies\n\n> Note: Full thickness burns covering more than 20 per cent of the body surface area\n\n> Note: Rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands\n\n> Note: Chronic erythrodermas","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2243},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is the original 2012 specification. It precisely targets its intended purpose: specifying medical conditions for the Essential Medical Equipment Payment without expansion into unrelated areas."},"complexity_factors":["Only 1 defined term ('Act')","Minimal structural sections (4 sections plus schedule)","Simple operative provision (section 4) that incorporates Schedule 1 by reference","Medical terminology requires healthcare knowledge but legal logic is straightforward"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument names the specific serious medical conditions that make someone eligible for the Essential Medical Equipment Payment (EMEP) — a Centrelink payment to help cover electricity for life-sustaining or health-critical powered equipment at home.  \n\nIt affects people whose conditions (e.g., high spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury, neurodegenerative or muscular-wasting disorders, extensive burns, rare sweating disorders, chronic erythrodermas) mean they need air conditioning, cooling systems, ventilators or similar equipment to stay alive or maintain health."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012","history":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012/history","analysis":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/social-security-essential-medical-equipment-payment-medical-conditions-specification-2012/documents"}}