Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00208:clause:1_1:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00208
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 3/5)
Character Range: 26629–30173

textiles, and batteries, electronic processing and electrical waste processing, the incineration of waste, fuel combustion, and shooting activities (present in ammunition).
                                     mist means a liquid aerosol formed by condensation of a vapour or by atomisation of a liquid.
                                     MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                     one joint-year means the amount of cannabis consumed in smoking one joint per day for a period of one year.
                                     one pack-year means the amount of tobacco consumed in smoking 20 cigarettes per day for a period of 1 year, or an equivalent amount of tobacco products.
Note 1: An equivalent amount of tobacco products is 7,300 grams of smoking tobacco by weight, either in cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, or a combination of same. For pipe tobacco, cigars or combinations of multiple tobacco types, 1 gram of tobacco is considered to be equal to one cigarette.
Note 2: Pack-years are calculated by dividing the number of cigarettes smoked per day by 20 and multiplying this number by the number of years the person has smoked. For example, smoking 10 cigarettes per day for 10 years is equal to 5 pack-years, and smoking 40 cigarettes per day for 10 years is equal to 20 pack-years.
                                     opium means the dried or boiled juice (latex) obtained from the seedpod of the poppy plant (Papaver somniferum).
                                     polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons means hydrocarbons with three or more condensed aromatic rings in which certain carbon atoms are common to two or three rings. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons occur in crude oil, shale oil and coal tars, and can be formed during the combustion of organic material or during high temperature processing of crude oil, coal, coke or other industrial carbon compounds.
                                     potable water means water used for drinking water, food preparation and beverage production.
                                     ppm-years means parts per million multiplied by years of exposure.
                                     pulmonary disease means:
(a)          bacterial pneumonia;
(b)          chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
(c)          fibrosing interstitial lung disease; or
(d)          tuberculosis of the lung.
                                     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.
                                     smokeless tobacco means tobacco products without combustion or pyrolysis at the time of use.
                                     soot means a carbonaceous by-product material produced from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel or other carbon-containing material, including airborne residual pyrolysed fuel particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood or petroleum coke.
                                     specified industry, manufacturing process or substance means:
(a)          aluminium production;
(b)          coal gasification;
(c)          coal tar pitch or concentrated coal tar