Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022C01119:reg:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022C01119
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 20550–23867

hardship including loss of employment, long periods of unemployment, foreclosure on a property or bankruptcy;
(f)           having a family member or significant other experience a major deterioration in their health; or
(g)          being a full-time caregiver to a family member or significant other with a severe physical, mental or developmental disability.
Note: significant other is also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                                     chronic renal failure means:
(a)          having a glomerular filtration rate of less than 15 mL/min/1.73 m2 for a period of at least 3 months; or
(b)          a need for renal replacement therapy (dialysis or transplantation) for treatment of complications of decreased glomerular filtration rate which would otherwise increase the risk of morbidity and mortality; or
(c)          undergoing chronic dialysis.
                                     combined oral contraceptive pill as specified means an oral contraceptive pill containing estrogen at a minimum dose of 50 micrograms and a progestogen.
                                     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.
                                     eyewitness means a person who experiences an incident first hand and can give direct evidence of it. This excludes persons exposed only to public broadcasting or mass media coverage of the incident.
                                     gingivitis—see subsection 7(2).
                                     irritant substance means a chemical which causes an inflammatory effect on living tissue by chemical action at the site of contact.
Note: Examples of irritant substances include tooth whitening products, dentrifices and mouthwashes.
                                     MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                     one pack-year means the amount of tobacco consumed in smoking 20 cigarettes per day for a period of 1 year, or an equivalent amount of tobacco products.
         Note 1: An equivalent amount of tobacco products is 7,300 grams of smoking tobacco by weight, either in cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, or a combination of same. For pipe tobacco, cigars or combinations of multiple tobacco types, 1 gram of tobacco is considered to be equal to one cigarette.
         Note 2: Pack-years are calculated by dividing the number of cigarettes smoked per day by 20 and multiplying this number by the number of years the person has smoked. For example, smoking 10 cigarettes per day for 10 years is equal to 5 pack-years, and smoking 40 cigarettes per day for 10 years is equal to 20 pack-years.
                                     relevant service means:
         (a)          operational service under the VEA;
         (b)          peacekeeping service under the VEA;
         (c)          hazardous service under the VEA;
         (d)          British nuclear test defence