Commonwealth legislation

Statement of Principles concerning Alzheimer's disease No. 17 of 2001

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This instrument sets the criteria for deciding whether a veteran’s Alzheimer’s disease (or death caused by it) is linked to military service for compensation claims. It adopts ICD-10-AM for diagnosis, treats deaths from terminal conditions caused by Alzheimer’s as deaths from the disease, and establishes medical thresholds for qualifying head injuries that may increase risk.

It also makes other applicable Statements of Principles automatically relevant and applies to veterans of operational, peacekeeping, or hazardous service.

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Current sections

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Inclusion of Statements of Principles

In this Statement of Principles if a relevant factor applies and that factor includes an injury or disease in respect of which there is a Statement of Principles then the factors in that last mentioned Statement of Principles apply in accordance with the terms of that Statement of Principles.

Other definitions

For the purposes of this Statement of Principles:

“death from Alzheimer’s disease” in relation to a person includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person’s Alzheimer’s disease;

“head injury” means trauma to the head which results in:

(i) a fracture of the skull; or

(ii) loss of consciousness for more than 15 minutes, or

(iii) post-traumatic amnesia for more than 30 minutes; or

(iv) a cerebral laceration or contusion;

“ICD-10-AM code” means a number assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Second Edition, effective date of 1 July 2000, copyrighted by the National Centre for Classification in Health, Sydney, NSW, and having ISBN 1 86487 271 3;

“relevant service” means:

(a) operational service; or

(b) peacekeeping service; or

“terminal event” means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes:

(a) pneumonia;

(b) respiratory failure;

(d) circulatory failure; or

(e) cessation of brain function.

Application

This Instrument applies to all matters to which section 120A of the Act applies.

Dated this Nineteenth day of March 2001

The Common Seal of the )

Repatriation Medical Authority )

was affixed to this instrument )

in the presence of: )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRMAN

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