Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00630:clause:1_1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00630
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 13209–16876

being a full-time caregiver to a family member or significant other with a severe physical, mental or developmental disability.
     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.

                               DSM-5 means the American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.  Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
                                  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.
                                  miscarriage means the spontaneous or induced expulsion of the products of conception from the uterus before the foetus is viable.
                               MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                  persistent pain means:
(a)          continuous pain; or
(b)          almost continuous pain; or
(c)          frequent, severe, intermittent pain;
                                  which is severe enough to interfere with usual work or leisure activities or activities of daily living.
                                  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.
                                  severe, chronic medical condition means an illness which substantially impacts on social, occupational or other important areas of functioning; and requires on-going daily or almost daily management of symptoms.  This management may include, but is not limited to, assistance with activities of daily living; bed rest; dietary modification; drug therapy; nursing care; oxygen therapy or physiotherapy.  This management must be supervised by a registered health practitioner.
                                  Severe, chronic medical conditions do not usually resolve spontaneously, are rarely cured completely and may progress to life threatening illnesses.  Examples of these conditions include poorly controlled asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease, pemphigus, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
                                  significant other means a person who has a close family bond or a close personal relationship and is important or influential in one's life.
                                  terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
(a)           pneumonia;
(b)           respiratory failure;
(c)           cardiac arrest;
(d)           circulatory failure; or
(e)           cessation of brain function.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

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