Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04771:front:0:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04771
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5AB(1)
councillor                              5AB(1)
defence service                         5Q(1A), 68
hazardous service                       5Q(1A), 68(1), 120(7)
member                                  5AB(1)
member of a Peacekeeping Force          5Q(1A), 68(1)
member of the Forces                    5Q(1A), 68(1)
peacekeeping service                    5Q(1A), 68(1)
registered medical practitioner         5AB(1)
Review Council                          5AB(1)
sound medical-scientific evidence       5AB(2)".

Insertion of section

  6. After section 5A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Repatriation Medical Authority and Specialist Medical Review Council definitions

  "5AB.(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

'Chairperson' means the Chairperson of the Repatriation Medical Authority;

'Convener' means the Convener of the Review Council;

'councillor' means the Convener or any other person holding office as a member of the Review Council;

'member' means the Chairperson or any other person holding office as a member of the Repatriation Medical Authority;

'registered medical practitioner' means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory but does not include a person so registered or licensed:

     (a) whose registration, or licence to practice, as a medical practitioner in any State or Territory has been suspended, or cancelled, following an inquiry relating to his or her conduct; and

     (b) who has not, after that suspension or cancellation, again been authorised to register or practise as a medical practitioner in that State or Territory;

'Review Council' means the Specialist Medical Review Council established by section 196V;

'sound medical-scientific evidence', in relation to a particular kind of injury, disease or death, has the meaning given by subsection (2).

"(2) Information about a particular kind of injury, disease or death is taken to be sound medical-scientific evidence if:

  (a) the information:

        (i) is consistent with material relating to medical science that has been published in a medical or scientific publication and has been, in the opinion of the Repatriation Medical Authority, subjected to a peer review process; or

        (ii) in accordance with generally accepted medical practice, would serve as the basis for the diagnosis and management of a medical condition; and

     (b) in the case of information about how that kind of injury, disease or death may be caused—meets the applicable criteria for assessing causation currently applied in the field of epidemiology.".

General definitions

7. Section 5Q of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

  "(1A) In Parts VIII, XI and XIA, unless the contrary intention appears:

'defence service' has the same meaning as in Part IV;

'hazardous service', in relation to a member of the Forces, has the same meaning as in section 120.

'member of a Peacekeeping Force' has the same meaning as in Part IV;

'member of the Forces' has the same meaning as in Part IV;

'peacekeeping service' has the same