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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 chronic multisymptom illness and death from chronic multisymptom illness.
Meaning of chronic multisymptom illness
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic multisymptom illness means a condition characterised by multiple somatic symptoms which has been diagnosed by a specialist physician or a psychiatrist and which meets the following criteria:

              1. There are one or more current symptoms from two of the following three categories:
                 (i)            fatigue;
(ii)         mood-cognition: feeling depressed, difficulty remembering or concentrating, feeling moody, feeling anxious, trouble finding words or difficulty sleeping; or
                 (iii)       musculoskeletal: joint pain, joint stiffness or muscle pain; and
             B.                The collection of symptoms relied upon to make the diagnosis is distressing and results in significant disruption of social and occupational functioning; and
             C.                The collection of symptoms relied upon to make the diagnosis must have persisted for at least six consecutive months.

Death from chronic multisymptom illness
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, chronic multisymptom illness, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's chronic multisymptom illness.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.