Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00869:schedule:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2017C00869
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 15923–19737

a tropical area, calculated by multiplying the hours of exposure in each latitude zone by the latitude weighting factor for the zone as per the latitude weighting factor schedule and adding together the result for each zone:

                                  Latitude weighting factor schedule
     Latitude zone                                                           Latitude weighting factor
     a latitude between 23° 27' South and 23° 27' North                             1.0
     a latitude from > 23° 27' to 35°                                                            0.75
     a latitude from > 35° to 45°                                                                  0.5
     a latitude from > 45° to 65°                                                                  0.25.

                                  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 twenty 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.

                                  physical trauma means:
         (a)          penetrating injury; or
         (b)          intraocular surgery; or
         (c)          blunt trauma resulting in symptoms and signs lasting at least three days.

                                  relevant service means:
         (a)          eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
         (b)          defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
         (c)          peacetime service under the MRCA.

            Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.

                                     severe thermal or chemical burn means a burn involving at least one of the following clinical features:
         (a)          corneal anaesthesia;
         (b)          corneal opacification;
         (c)          symptoms and signs lasting at least three days and requiring medical attention; or
         (d)          for chemical burns only, penetration of the chemical into the anterior chamber.

                                  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.

                                  tropical area means any area between the Tropic of Capricorn (23º 27' South) and the Tropic of Cancer (23º 27' North).

                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

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