Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00902:clause:1_1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00902
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1
Character Range: 6172–9745

1               Definitions
In this instrument:
                                     category 1A stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          experiencing a life-threatening event;
(b)          being subject to a serious physical attack or assault including rape and sexual molestation; or
(c)          being threatened with a weapon, being held captive, being kidnapped or being tortured.
                                     category 1B stressor means one of the following severe traumatic events:
(a)          killing or maiming a person;
(b)          being an eyewitness to a person being killed or critically injured;
(c)          being an eyewitness to atrocities inflicted on another person;
(d)          participating in the clearance of a corpse or a critically injured casualty; or
(e)          viewing a corpse or a critically injured casualty as an eyewitness.
Note: corpse and eyewitness are also defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
                                     corpse means the human remains or body parts of one or more persons who have met a violent or horrific death.
        Note: Examples of a violent or horrific death may include death due to suicide, gunshot, improvised explosive devices, natural and technological disasters, terrorist attacks or motor vehicle accidents. Seeing a closed body bag or viewing a body in an open-casket coffin are excluded from this definition.
                                     DSM-5-TR means the American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, 2022.
                                     eyewitness means a person who experiences an incident first hand and can give direct evidence of it. This excludes persons exposed only to public broadcasting or mass media coverage of the incident.
                                     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.
                                     severe childhood abuse means:
(a)          serious physical, emotional, psychological or sexual harm whilst a child aged under 16 years; or
(b)          neglect involving a serious failure to provide the necessities for health, physical and emotional development, or wellbeing whilst a child aged under 16 years;
                                     where such serious harm or neglect has been perpetrated by a parent, a care provider, an adult who works with or around that child, or any other adult in contact with that child.
                                     somatic symptom disorder—see subsection 7(2).
                                     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.
                                     VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.