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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 sensorineural hearing loss and death from sensorineural hearing loss.
Meaning of sensorineural hearing loss
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sensorineural hearing loss:
(a)          means acquired hearing loss due to a defect in the cochlea or auditory nerve, with a permanent shift to a hearing threshold level of 25 decibels (dB) or more, at 500, 1 000, 1 500, 2 000, 3 000, 4 000 or 6 000 hertz (Hz); and
(b)          excludes:
(i)            congenital deafness; and
(ii)         hearing loss due to Meniere's disease.
Death from sensorineural hearing loss
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, sensorineural hearing loss, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's sensorineural hearing loss.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.