Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00650:clause:1_1:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00650
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 11325–15021

1               Definitions
  In this instrument:
                             category 1A stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          experiencing a life-threatening event;
(b)          being subject to a serious physical attack or assault including rape and sexual molestation; or
(c)          being threatened with a weapon, being held captive, being kidnapped or being tortured.
     category 1B stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          killing or maiming a person;
(b)          being an eyewitness to a person being killed or critically injured;
(c)          being an eyewitness to atrocities inflicted on another person;
(d)          participating in the clearance of a corpse or a critically injured casualty; or
(e)          viewing a corpse or a critically injured casualty as an eyewitness.
            Note: corpse and eyewitness are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                             clinically significant disorder of mental health as specified means one of the following conditions, which is of sufficient severity to warrant ongoing management:
(a)          acute stress disorder;
(b)          agoraphobia;
(c)          alcohol use disorder;
(d)          anxiety disorder;
(e)          attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (including other specified attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and unspecified attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder);
(f)           bipolar disorder;
(g)          conduct disorder (including other specified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder and unspecified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder);
(h)          depressive disorder;
(i)            eating disorder;
(j)            gambling disorder;
(k)          gender dysphoria;
(l)            obsessive-compulsive disorder;
(m)        oppositional defiant disorder;
(n)          panic disorder;
(o)          posttraumatic stress disorder;
(p)          schizophrenia;
(q)          social anxiety disorder;
(r)           somatic symptom disorder;
(s)           specific phobia; or
(t)            substance use disorder.

         Note 1: Management" of the condition may involve regular visits (for example, at least monthly) to a psychiatrist, counsellor or general practitioner.
         Note 2: To "warrant ongoing management" does not require that any actual management was received or given for the condition.
     corpse means the human remains or body parts of one or more persons who have met a violent or horrific death.

         Note:  Examples of a violent or horrific death may include death due to suicide, gunshot, improvised explosive devices, natural and technological disasters, terrorist attacks or motor vehicle accidents.  Seeing a closed body bag or viewing a body in an open-casket coffin are excluded from this definition.

                                     DSM-5 means the American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.  Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
                                     eyewitness means a person who experiences an incident first hand and can give direct evidence of it.  This excludes persons exposed only to public broadcasting or mass media coverage of the incident.
                                     MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                     personality change due to another medical condition means a disorder of mental health (derived from DSM-5) which is characterised by a persistent personality disturbance that is due to the direct physiological effects of a medical condition (for