Commonwealth legislation

Statement of Principles concerning motor neuron disease No. 66 of 2001

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

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This is an incomplete extract from a veterans' compensation instrument called a Statement of Principles (SOP), which helps determine if a veteran's motor neuron disease (MND) is related to their military service. The provided text only contains the 'fine print' definitions. It explains that 'death from MND' includes deaths from terminal complications like pneumonia or respiratory failure caused by the disease. It also defines 'relevant service' as military service that is not operational or hazardous (a key limitation). The text includes a rule that if MND is linked to another medical condition that has its own SOP, that other SOP's rules apply too. However, the actual medical criteria for deciding if MND itself is service-related are missing from this extract.

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Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Statement of Principles concerning motor neuron disease No. 66 of 2001.

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

“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) eligible war service (other than operational service); or

(b) defence service (other than hazardous service);

“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 120B of the Act applies.

Dated this Twelfth day of September 2001

The Common Seal of the )

Repatriation Medical Authority )

was affixed to this instrument )

in the presence of: )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRMAN

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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