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Amendment Statement of Principles concerning aplastic anaemia No. 31 of 2016

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This amendment tightens the medical criteria for veterans seeking compensation for aplastic anaemia, requiring more specific proof that benzene exposure caused the disease. It applies to Defence personnel claiming under the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 or MRCA 2004.

Claimants must show exposure on at least 30 days within the six months before symptoms and meet strict thresholds (skin/swallowing >5% benzene or inhalation >5 ppm over an 8‑hour shift).

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Amendment Statement of Principles concerning aplastic anaemia No. 31 of 2016

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Amendment Statement of Principles

concerning

APLASTIC ANAEMIA

No. 31 of 2016

for the purposes of the

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

This Instrument may be cited as Amendment Statement of Principles concerning aplastic anaemia No. 31 of 2016.
The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(8) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, Statement of Principles concerning aplastic anaemia Instrument No. 50 of 2012, by:

(A) Replacing existing factor "(g)" in clause 6 as follows:

"(g) being exposed to benzene as specified on at least 30 days within the six months before the clinical onset of aplastic anaemia; or"; and

(B) Replacing the definition of "being exposed to benzene" in clause 9 with the definition of "being exposed to benzene as specified" as follows:

'"being exposed to benzene as specified" means:

(a) having cutaneous contact with liquids containing benzene greater than 5% by volume; or
(b) ingesting liquids containing benzene greater than 5% by volume; or
(c) inhaling benzene vapour where such exposure occurs at an ambient 8-hour time-weighted average benzene concentration exceeding five parts per million;'.

3. The amendments made by this instrument apply to all matters to which Instrument No. 50 of 2012, section 120A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 and section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 apply.

The amendments made by this instrument take effect from 4 April 2016.

Dated this fourth day of March 2016

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Repatriation Medical Authority )

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PROFESSOR NICHOLAS SAUNDERS AO

CHAIRPERSON

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