Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:5ab
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5AB
Character Range: 22793–24759

5AB  Repatriation Medical Authority and Specialist Medical Review Council definitions
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
Chairperson means the Chairperson of the Repatriation Medical Authority.
Convener means the Convener of the Review Council.
councillor means the Convener or any other person holding office as a member of the Review Council.
member means the Chairperson or any other person holding office as a member of the Repatriation Medical Authority.
registered medical practitioner means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory but does not include a person so registered or licensed:
 (a) whose registration, or licence to practice, as a medical practitioner in any State or Territory has been suspended, or cancelled, following an inquiry relating to his or her conduct; and
 (b) who has not, after that suspension or cancellation, again been authorised to register or practise as a medical practitioner in that State or Territory.
Review Council means the Specialist Medical Review Council established by section 196V.
sound medical‑scientific evidence, in relation to a particular kind of injury, disease or death, has the meaning given by subsection (2).
 (2) Information about a particular kind of injury, disease or death is taken to be sound medical‑scientific evidence if:
 (a) the information:
 (i) is consistent with material relating to medical science that has been published in a medical or scientific publication and has been, in the opinion of the Repatriation Medical Authority, subjected to a peer review process; or
 (ii) in accordance with generally accepted medical practice, would serve as the basis for the diagnosis and management of a medical condition; and
 (b) in the case of information about how that kind of injury, disease or death may be caused—meets the applicable criteria for assessing causation currently applied in the field of epidemiology.