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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 albinism and death from albinism.
Meaning of albinism
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, albinism:
(a)          means one of a group of genetic disorders of melanin biosynthesis, commonly involving a reduction in hair, skin or eye pigmentation, misrouting of optic nerve fibres and other ocular abnormalities; and
(b)          includes oculocutaneous albinism and ocular albinism.
(3)          While albinism attracts ICD‑10‑AM code E70.3, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of albinism 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 albinism
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, albinism, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's albinism.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.