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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 motor neurone disease and death from motor neurone disease.
Meaning of motor neurone disease
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, motor neurone disease:
(a)          means               a progressive neurodegenerative disease with either:
(i)             the presence of upper and lower motor neurone dysfunction in at least one body region; or
(ii)          the presence of lower motor neurone dysfunction in at least two body regions; and
(b)           the absence of other disease processes that explain the motor neurone dysfunction.
(3)          While motor neurone disease attracts ICD‑10‑AM code G12.2, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of motor neurone 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 motor neurone disease
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, motor neurone disease, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's motor neurone disease.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.