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Amendment of Statement of Principles concerning pes planus No. 5 of 2002

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This amendment updates medical rules for veterans' compensation by expanding how pes planus (flat feet) can be linked to service. It adds specific foot fractures and ankle/foot joint dislocations as recognised service-related causes, and clarifies that ligament injuries must be discrete to count.

It matters to veterans who sustained those injuries in service and later developed or had worsening flat feet, giving them additional pathways to establish entitlement.

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Amendment of Statement of Principles concerning pes planus No. 5 of 2002

Instrument No.5 of 2002

Amendment of Statement of Principles

concerning

PES PLANUS

ICD-10-AM CODES: M21.4, Q66.5

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(2) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 Instrument No.61 of 2001 by:
omitting subparagraph 5(a)(i) and replacing it with the following:

“(i) suffering from a fracture of one or more tarsal or metatarsal bones of the affected foot before the clinical onset of pes planus; or”

B. inserting, immediately after subparagraph 5(a)(i), the following:

“(ia) suffering from a subluxation, or dislocation of one or more of the tarsal or tarso-metatarsal joints of the affected foot before the clinical onset of pes planus; or”

C. omitting subparagraph 5(b) and replacing it with the following:

“(b) suffering from a fracture of one or more tarsal or metatarsal bones of the affected foot before the clinical worsening of pes planus; or”

D. inserting, immediately after subparagraph 5(b), the following:

“(ba) suffering from a subluxation, or dislocation of one or more of the tarsal or tarso-metatarsal joints of the affected foot before the clinical worsening of pes planus; or”

E. amending subparagraph 5(c) to insert the word ‘discrete’ before ‘ligamentous’.

The amendments made by this instrument apply to all matters to which Instrument No.61 of 2001 and section 120A of the Act apply.

Dated this Ninth day of January 2002

The Common Seal of the )

Repatriation Medical Authority )

was affixed to this instrument )

in the presence of )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRMAN

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