Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00240:clause:1_1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00240
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 12264–15369

independence in everyday activities (that is, at a minimum, requiring assistance with complex instrumental activities of daily living such as paying bills or managing medications).
                                     MET means a unit of measurement of the level of physical exertion. 1 MET = 3.5 ml of oxygen/kg of body weight per minute, 1.0 kcal/kg of body weight per hour or resting metabolic rate.
                                     mild neurocognitive disorder means evidence of modest cognitive decline from a previous level of performance in one or more cognitive domains (complex attention, executive function, learning and memory, language, perceptual-motor, or social cognition) based on:
(a)          concern of the individual, a knowledgeable informant, or the clinician that there has been a mild decline in cognitive function; and
(b)          a modest impairment in cognitive performance, documented by standardised neuropsychological testing.
                                      MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                     pack-years of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products means a calculation of consumption where one pack-year of cigarettes equals 20 tailor-made cigarettes per day for a period of one calendar year, or 7 300 cigarettes.  One tailor-made cigarette approximates one gram of tobacco or one gram of cigar or pipe tobacco by weight.  One pack-year of tailor-made cigarettes equates to 7.3 kilograms of smoking tobacco by weight.  Tobacco products mean cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, smoked alone or in any combination.
                                     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.
                                     specified list of anticholinergic drugs means:
         (a)          antidepressants (amitriptyline, amoxapine, clomipramine, desipramine, doxepin, imipramine, nortriptyline, paroxetine, protriptyline and trimipramine);
         (b)          antiparkinson agents (benztropine, biperiden, chlorphenoxamine, cycrimine, ethopropazine, procyclidine and trihexyphenidyl); or
         (c)          bladder antimuscarinics (darifenacin, fesoterodine, flavoxate, oxybutynin, solifenacin, tolterodine and trospium).
                                     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.