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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about presbyopia and death from presbyopia.
Meaning of presbyopia
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, presbyopia means physiologically blurred near vision due to a reduction in the power of accommodation of the lens of the eye.
(3)          While presbyopia attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H52.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of presbyopia is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD‑10‑AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD‑10‑AM), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from presbyopia
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, presbyopia, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's presbyopia.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.