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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 radiation burn and death from radiation burn.
Meaning of radiation burn
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, radiation burn:
(a)          means an injury to the skin and external body covering tissues due to transfer of energy into the tissue with external exposure to ionising radiation; and
(b)          includes ionising radiation burns of deep tissues and organs that are part of a multiple burn injury that includes injury to the skin and external body covering tissues; and
(c)          excludes:
                (i)            ultraviolet radiation burns; and
                (ii)         isolated ionising radiation burn of the internal body organs such as the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and internal genitourinary tract.
Death from radiation burn
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, radiation burn, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's radiation burn.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.