Amendment of Statement of Principles concerning fibrosing interstitial lung disease No. 59 of 2010 (Cth)

Amendment Statement of Principles

concerning

FIBROSING INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE

No. 59 of 2010

for the purposes of the

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

1. This Instrument may be cited as Statement of Principles concerning fibrosing interstitial lung disease No. 59 of 2010.

1. The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(8) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, Statement of Principles concerning fibrosing interstitial lung disease Instrument No. 35 of 2009 by:

(A)Inserting a new factor "(ua)" immediately following factor "(u)" in clause 6 as follows:

"(ua)                smoking at least 20 pack-years of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products, before the clinical onset of fibrosing interstitial lung disease, and where smoking has ceased, the clinical onset has occurred within 25 years of cessation; or"; and

(B)Inserting a new factor "(ppa)" immediately following factor "(pp)" in clause 6 as follows:

"(ppa)              smoking at least 20 pack-years of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products, before the clinical worsening of fibrosing interstitial lung disease, and where smoking has ceased, the clinical worsening has occurred within five years of cessation; or"; and

(C)Inserting a definition for "pack-years of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products" in clause 9 as follows:

'"pack-years of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products" means a calculation of consumption where one pack-year of cigarettes equals twenty tailor made cigarettes per day for a period of one calendar year, or 7300 cigarettes. One tailor made cigarette approximates one gram of tobacco or one gram of cigar or pipe tobacco by weight. One pack-year of tailor made cigarettes equates to 7300 cigarettes, or 7.3 kg of smoking tobacco by weight. Tobacco products means either cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars smoked, alone or in any combination;'.

1. The amendment made by this instrument applies to all matters to which Instrument No. 35 of 2009, section 120A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 and section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 apply.

1. The amendment made by this instrument takes effect from 30 June 2010.

Dated this       eighteenth     day of              June  2010

The Common Seal of the                  )

Repatriation Medical Authority       )

was affixed to this instrument          )

in the presence of   )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRPERSON