Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00888:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017L00888
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 1609–3315

7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about accommodation disorder and death from accommodation disorder.
Meaning of accommodation disorder
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, accommodation disorder means:
(a)          the inability to adjust the lens of the eye to various distances or an inability to sustain such an adjustment; and
(b)           excludes processes primarily affecting the lens (presbyopia and cataract) or shape of the eyeball (myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism), accommodative excess, and reversible paralysis of ciliary muscle function by means of pharmacological agents, except where such agents cannot be ceased or substituted.
(3)          While accommodation disorder attracts ICD‑10‑AM code H52.5, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of accommodation disorder is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD‑10‑AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD‑10‑AM), Ninth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2015, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978‑1‑76007‑020‑5.
Death from accommodation disorder
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, accommodation disorder, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's accommodation disorder.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.