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(No. 90 of 2020).
     3               Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 196B(2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
     5               Application
This instrument applies to a claim to which section 120A of the VEA or section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 applies.
     6               Definitions
The terms defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary have the meaning given when used in this instrument.
     7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about inflammatory bowel disease and death from inflammatory bowel disease.
Meaning of inflammatory bowel disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, inflammatory bowel disease:
(a)          means a chronic, relapsing and remitting inflammatory autoimmune disorder of the gastrointestinal tract; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            Crohn disease;
(ii)         ulcerative colitis; and
(iii)       inflammatory bowel disease of unspecified type; and
(c)          excludes bowel inflammation that is unrelated to autoimmunity.
                Note 1: Symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease typically include abdominal pain, diarrhoea and weight loss.
                Note 2: Inflammatory bowel disease may be associated with extra-intestinal manifestations, including episcleritis, erythema nodosum, peripheral arthritis and pyoderma gangrenosum.
                Note 3: Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(3)          While inflammatory bowel disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code K50 or K51, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of inflammatory bowel disease 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), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from inflammatory bowel disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, inflammatory bowel disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's inflammatory bowel disease.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
     8               Basis for determining the factors
The Repatriation Medical Authority is of the view that there is sound medical‑scientific evidence that indicates that inflammatory bowel disease and death from inflammatory bowel disease can be related to relevant service rendered by veterans, members of Peacekeeping Forces, or members of the Forces under the VEA, or members under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA, relevant service and VEA are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
     9               Factors that must exist
At least one of the following factors must as a minimum exist before it can be said that a reasonable hypothesis has been raised connecting inflammatory bowel disease or death from