Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00209:reg:9:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00209
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 6490–9412

9               Factors that must exist
At least one of the following factors must as a minimum exist before it can be said that a reasonable hypothesis has been raised connecting soft tissue sarcoma or death from soft tissue sarcoma with the circumstances of a person's relevant service:
(1)          being:
(a)          on land in Vietnam; or
(b)          at sea in Vietnamese waters; or
(c)          on board a vessel and consuming potable water supplied on that vessel, when the water supply had been produced by evaporative distillation of estuarine Vietnamese waters;
         for a cumulative period of at least 30 days, at least 5 years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: being: (a) on land in Vietnam; or (b) at sea in Vietnamese waters and estuarine Vietnamese waters are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(2)          inhaling, ingesting or having cutaneous contact with a chemical agent contaminated by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD) for a cumulative period of at least 250 hours, at least 2 years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: inhaling, ingesting or having cutaneous contact with a chemical agent contaminated by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin (TCDD) is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
(3)          undergoing a course of therapeutic radiation for cancer, where the affected region was in the field of radiation, at least 3 years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
(4)          having received a cumulative equivalent dose of at least 0.1 sievert of ionising radiation to the affected region, at least 3 years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: cumulative equivalent dose is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(5)          for angiosarcoma only: having received a cumulative equivalent dose of at least 0.1 sievert of ionising radiation to the affected region, at least one year before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: cumulative equivalent dose and angiosarcoma are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(6)          for hepatic angiosarcoma only, having received ionising radiation to the liver from internal deposition of thorium dioxide (Thorotrast), at least 5 years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: cumulative equivalent dose and angiosarcoma are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(7)          inhaling a cumulative dose of at least 200 ppm-years of gaseous vinyl chloride, at least two years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: ppm-years is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
(8)          for hepatic angiosarcoma only, being exposed to arsenic before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma, where the first exposure to arsenic occurred at least five years before the clinical onset of soft tissue sarcoma;
Note: being exposed to arsenic and angiosarcoma are defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
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