Amendment of Statement of Principles concerning diverticular disease of the colon No. 87 of 1997 (Cth)

Instrument No.87 of 1997

Amendment of Statement of Principles

concerning

DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON

ICD CODE: 562.1

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
subsection 196B(2)

The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(2) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 (the Act), Instrument No.67 of 1994, (Statement of Principles concerning diverticular disease of the colon), by:

1.         omitting paragraph (b) in clause 1, and replacing it with the following:

“(b)      changing to a diet at least 50% lower than usual in dietary fibre for that person, for a continuous period of at least 90 days immediately before the clinical worsening of diverticular disease of the colon; or”;

2.         omitting the definition of “ICD code” in clause 4, and replacing it with the following:

“'ICD code' means a number assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in the Australian Version of The International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), effective date of 1 July 1996, copyrighted by the National Coding Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, and having ISBN 0 642 24447 2;”.

3. The amendments made by this instrument apply to all matters to which Instrument No.67 of 1994 and section 120A of the Act apply.

Dated this       Eighth               day of              October   1997

The Common Seal of the    )

Repatriation Medical Authority                   )

was affixed to this instrument   )

in the presence of:   )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRMAN