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1               Definitions
In this instrument:

                               beef product means food prepared from or containing beef.
                               blood products means biopharmaceutical products made from human blood.
                               bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, means a neurodegenerative disease of cattle caused by consumption of prion-contaminated meat or bone meal.
                               Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease—see subsection 7(2).
                               human tissue or product as specified means:
(a)          a corneal transplant;
(b)          cadaveric human pituitary hormones; or
(c)          human dura mater as a graft or in radiographic embolisation procedures.
                                  MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                  relevant service means:
         (a)          eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
         (b)          defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
         (c)          peacetime service under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                                  terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
         (a)           pneumonia;
         (b)           respiratory failure;
         (c)           cardiac arrest;
         (d)           circulatory failure; or
         (e)           cessation of brain function.
                               variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease means a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which is characterised by a younger age at onset, a more protracted clinical course, more sensory disturbances and more psychiatric symptoms than sporadic (classical) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, as well as a marked accumulation of abnormal prion protein and florid amyloid plaques in the brain tissue.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.