Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:5_370ca
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 5 cl 370CA
Character Range: 333163–333960

370CA  Meaning of sound medical‑scientific evidence
  Information about a particular kind of injury, disease or death is taken to be sound medical‑scientific evidence if:
 (a) the information:
 (i) is consistent with material relating to medical science that has been published in a medical or scientific publication and has been, in the opinion of the Authority, subjected to a peer review process; or
 (ii) in accordance with generally accepted medical practice, would serve as the basis for the diagnosis and management of a medical condition; and
 (b) in the case of information about how that kind of injury, disease or death may be caused—meets the applicable criteria for assessing causation currently applied in the field of epidemiology.

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