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Character Range: 8823–11274

3.       having surgery for retinal detachment of the affected eye, within the 6 months before clinical onset or clinical worsening of myopia or astigmatism;
 1.       having blunt or penetrating trauma to the affected eye during the 1 month before clinical onset or clinical worsening;
Note 1: Examples of blunt trauma include a direct blow to the eye by a fist, ball, or stone; or accidental injuries as a result of motor vehicle, sporting, or work-related accidents.
Note 2: Examples of penetrating trauma include injuries by sharp and pointed objects such as needles, knives, nails, arrows, screwdrivers, pens, bullets, or glass.

          1.       taking any of the following medications (which cannot be ceased or substituted in the long term) within the 2 weeks before clinical onset or clinical worsening of myopia;
                  1.           acetazolamide;
                  2.           chlortalidone/chlorthalidone;
                  3.           daratumumab;
                  4.           indapamide;
                  5.           methazolamide;
                  6.            metronidazole;
                  7.           pilocarpine;
                  8.           topiramate;
                  9.             zonisamide.
 1.       inability to obtain appropriate clinical management for visual refractive error before clinical worsening.
 1.            Relationship to service
        1.           The existence in a person of any factor referred to in section 9, must be related to the relevant service rendered by the person.
        2.           The clinical worsening aspects of factors set out in section 9 apply only to material contribution to, or aggravation of, visual refractive error where the person's visual refractive error was suffered or contracted before or during (but did not arise out of) the person's relevant service.
 2.            Factors referring to an injury or disease covered by another Statement of Principles
In this Statement of Principles:
 1.           if a factor referred to in section 9 applies in relation to a person; and
 2.           that factor refers to an injury or disease in respect of which a Statement of Principles has been determined under subsection 196B(3) of the VEA;
then the factors in that Statement of Principles apply in accordance with the terms of that Statement of Principles as in force from time to time.

Schedule 1 - Dictionary
Note:               See Section 6