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the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
     5               Application
This instrument applies to a claim to which section 120A of the VEA or section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 applies.
     6               Definitions
The terms defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary have the meaning given when used in this instrument.
     7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about electrical injury and death from electrical injury.
Meaning of electrical injury
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, electrical injury:
(a)          means physical damage to the body as a direct result of the flow of electrical current through the body or across the body surface; and
(b)          includes such damage from:
(i)            an external manufactured source (including an implanted electrical device); or
(ii)         being struck by lightning; or
(iii)       being in the immediate vicinity of a lightning strike; and
(iv)        electrical contact burns; and
(v)          electrical flash burns.
(c)          excludes any consequences from exposure to external electromagnetic radiation.
(3)          While electrical injury attracts ICD‑10‑AM code T75.0 or T75.4, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of electrical injury is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from electrical injury
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, electrical injury, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's electrical injury.
            Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
     8               Basis for determining the factors
The Repatriation Medical Authority is of the view that there is sound medical‑scientific evidence that indicates that electrical injury and death from electrical injury can be related to relevant service rendered by veterans, members of Peacekeeping Forces, or members of the Forces under the VEA, or members under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA, relevant service and VEA are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
     9               Factors that must exist
At least one of the following factors must as a minimum exist before it can be said that a reasonable hypothesis has been raised connecting electrical injury or death from electrical injury with the circumstances of a person's relevant service:
(1)          having exposure to electrical current at the time of clinical onset;
(1A) having exposure to an electric arc across the affected area of the body at the time