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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 suicide and attempted suicide and death from attempted suicide.
Meaning of suicide and attempted suicide
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles:
(a)          suicide means the intentional act of taking one's own life; and

(b)          attempted suicide means an intentional act, the purpose of which is to take one's own life, but which has a non-fatal outcome.
Death from attempted suicide
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, attempted suicide, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's attempted suicide.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.