Commonwealth legislation

Statement of Principles concerning systemic sclerosis No. 65 of 2009

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This Statement of Principles sets the legal rule for deciding whether veterans can obtain compensation for systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) by linking the disease to eligible Australian military service under the VEA and MRCA. It clarifies that deaths from complications count as death from the disease, ensures connected conditions are treated consistently with other Statements, and anchors the definition to ICD-10-AM coding so medical and legal assessments align.

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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 as in force from time to time.

Other definitions

For the purposes of this Statement of Principles:

"death from systemic sclerosis" in relation to a person includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person’s systemic sclerosis;

"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), Sixth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2008, copyrighted by the National Centre for Classification in Health, Sydney, NSW, and having ISBN 978 1 74210 016 6;

"relevant service" means:

(a) eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA; or

(b) defence service (other than hazardous service) under the VEA; 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.

Date of effect

This Instrument takes effect from 2 September 2009.

Dated this nineteenth day of August 2009

The Common Seal of the )

Repatriation Medical Authority )

was affixed to this instrument )

in the presence of: )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRPERSON

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