Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C01042:reg:9:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023C01042
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 6625–9792

9               Factors that must exist
At least one of the following factors must exist before it can be said that, on the balance of probabilities, Parkinson's disease or secondary parkinsonism or death from Parkinson's disease or secondary parkinsonism is connected with the circumstances of a person's relevant service:
(1)          for Parkinson's disease only, in a person with a history of a regular smoking habit as specified, having not smoked for at least the five years before the clinical onset of Parkinson's disease;
Note: regular smoking habit as specified is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
         (1A) for Parkinson's disease only: having moderate to severe traumatic brain injury more than 15 years before the clinical onset of Parkinson's disease;
(2)          for secondary parkinsonism only:
(a)          having an episode of acute cholinergic poisoning from exposure to an organophosphorus ester within the six weeks before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: acute cholinergic poisoning and organophosphorus ester are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(b)          having moderate to severe traumatic brain injury within the six months before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(c)          having an intracranial space occupying lesion within the six weeks before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(d)          having hydrocephalus, or draining of hydrocephalus, within the six weeks before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: hydrocephalus is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(e)          having a cerebrovascular accident, excluding transient ischaemic attack, within the two years before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(f)           having a disease from the specified list of diseases involving the cerebral vessels, in the presence of neuroimaging findings of brain stem or cerebral white matter lesions, haemorrhage or infarction, at the time of the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: specified list of diseases involving the cerebral vessels is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(g)          having a subarachnoid haemorrhage within the six weeks before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(h)          having an acquired cerebrovascular malformation or dural arteriovenous fistula at the time of the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(i)            having an hypoxic cerebral insult within the one year before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: hypoxic cerebral insult is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(j)            having encephalitis within the six weeks before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: encephalitis is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(k)          being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus before the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(l)            having neurosyphilis at the time of the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
Note: neurosyphilis is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(m)        having neurocysticercosis at the time of the clinical onset of secondary parkinsonism;
(n)          inhaling carbon