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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1
Character Range: 6805–9117

1               Definitions
In this instrument:
                                     beef product means food prepared from or containing beef.
                                     blood products means biopharmaceutical products made from human blood.
                                     bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as 'mad cow disease', means a neurodegenerative disease of cattle caused by consumption of prion-contaminated meat or bone meal.
                                     Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease—see subsection 7(2).
                                     human tissue or product as specified means:
(a)          a corneal transplant;
(b)          a liver transplant;
(c)          an albumin infusion;
(d)          cadaveric human pituitary hormones; or
(e)          human dura mater as a graft or in radiographic embolisation procedures.
                                                   MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                     relevant service means:
         (a)          operational service under the VEA;
         (b)          peacekeeping service under the VEA;
         (c)          hazardous service under the VEA;
         (d)          British nuclear test defence service under the VEA;
         (e)          warlike service under the MRCA; or
         (f)           non-warlike service under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                                     terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
         (a)           pneumonia;
         (b)           respiratory failure;
         (c)           cardiac arrest;
         (d)           circulatory failure; or
         (e)           cessation of brain function.
                                     variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease means a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which is characterised by a younger age at onset, a more protracted clinical course, more sensory disturbances and more psychiatric symptoms than sporadic (classical) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, as well as a marked accumulation of abnormal prion protein and florid amyloid plaques in the brain tissue.
                                     VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.