Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00484:clause:1_1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00484
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 10362–13738

1               Definitions
In this instrument:
category 1A stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          experiencing a life-threatening event;
(b)          being subject to a serious physical attack or assault including rape and sexual molestation; or
(c)          being threatened with a weapon, being held captive, being kidnapped, or being tortured.
                                             category 1B stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          killing or maiming a person;
(b)          being a witness to a person being killed or critically injured;
(c)          being a witness to atrocities inflicted on another person;
(d)          participating in the clearance of a corpse or a critically injured casualty; or
(e)          viewing a corpse or a critically injured casualty as a witness.
         Note: corpse and witness are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
                               category 2 stressor means one of the following negative life events, the effects of which are chronic in nature and cause the person to feel on-going distress, concern or worry:
(a)          being socially isolated and unable to maintain friendships or family relationships, due to physical location, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, or medical or psychiatric illness;
(b)          experiencing a problem with a long-term relationship including the break-up of a close personal relationship, the need for marital or relationship counselling, marital separation, or divorce;
(c)          having concerns in the work or school environment including on-going disharmony with fellow work or school colleagues, perceived lack of social support within the work or school environment, perceived lack of control over tasks performed and stressful workloads, or experiencing bullying in the workplace or school environment;
(d)          experiencing serious legal issues including being detained or held in custody, on-going involvement with the police concerning violations of the law, or court appearances associated with personal legal problems;
(e)          having severe financial hardship including loss of employment, long periods of unemployment, foreclosure on a property, or bankruptcy; or
(f)           having a family member or close friend experience a major deterioration in their health.
                               corpse means the human remains or body parts of one or more persons who have met a violent or horrific death.
        Note: Examples of a violent or horrific death may include death due to suicide, gunshot, improvised explosive devices, natural and technological disasters, terrorist attacks or motor vehicle accidents. Seeing a closed body bag or viewing a body in an open-casket coffin are excluded from this definition.
                                  MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                               myasthenia gravis—see subsection 7(2).
                                  relevant service means:
         (a)          eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
         (b)          defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
         (c)          peacetime service under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1