Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L00214:clause:1_1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L00214
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 1 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 13214–16075

severe physical, mental or developmental disability.
Note: significant other is also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                               corpse means the human remains or body parts of one or more persons who have met a violent or horrific death.
        Note: Examples of a violent or horrific death may include death due to suicide, gunshot, improvised explosive devices, natural and technological disasters, terrorist attacks or motor vehicle accidents.  Seeing a closed body bag or viewing a body in an open-casket coffin are excluded from this definition.
                                  eyewitness means a person who observes an incident first hand and can give direct evidence of it.  This excludes persons exposed only to public broadcasting or mass media coverage of the incident.
                                  hormonal assisted reproductive therapy means administration of a sequence of hormone treatments to achieve pregnancy, including gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonists or antagonists, follicle stimulating hormone, human menopausal gonadotrophin, and chorionic gonadotrophin.
                                MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                               multiple sclerosis—see subsection 7(2).
                               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 either cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, smoked alone or in any combination.
                                  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.
                               significant other means a person who has a close family bond or a close personal relationship and is important or influential in one's life.
                                  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.