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Statement of Principles
concerning
EATING DISORDER
(Balance of Probabilities)
(No. 16 of 2025)
The Repatriation Medical Authority determines the following Statement of Principles under subsection 196B(3) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

Dated 17 December 2024.

Professor Terence Campbell AM
Chairperson
by and on behalf of
The Repatriation Medical Authority

Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Repeal
5 Application
6 Definitions
7 Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
8 Basis for determining the factors
9 Factors that must exist
10 Relationship to service
11 Factors referring to an injury or disease covered by another Statement of Principles
Schedule 1 - Dictionary
1 Definitions

 1.                Name
This is the Statement of Principles concerning eating disorder (Balance of Probabilities) (No.16 of 2025).
 1.                Commencement
              This instrument commences on 28 January 2025.
 1.                Authority
This instrument is made under subsection 196B(3) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.
 1.                Repeal
The Statement of Principles concerning eating disorder (Balance of Probabilities) (No. 14 of 2016) (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2016L00264) made under subsections 196B(3) and (8) of the VEA is repealed.
 1.                Application
This instrument applies to a claim to which section 120B of the VEA or section 339 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 applies.
 1.                Definitions
The terms defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary have the meaning given when used in this instrument.
 1.                Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
         1.           This Statement of Principles is about eating disorder and death from eating disorder.
Meaning of eating disorder
 1.           For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, eating disorder:

         1.           means a persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behaviour resulting in the altered consumption or absorption of food, which significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning; and
         2.           includes:
                 1.             anorexia nervosa;
                 2.          bulimia nervosa;
                 3.        binge-eating disorder;
                 4.         pica;
                 5.           rumination disorder;
                 6.         avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
                 7.      other specified feeding or eating disorder; and
                 8.    unspecified feeding or eating disorder; and
         3.           excludes:
                 1.             anorexia;
                 2.          orthorexia nervosa; and
                 3.        polyphagia.

         anorexia nervosa means a disorder of mental health meeting the following diagnostic criteria (derived from DSM-5-TR):
              1.            Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health. Significantly low weight is defined as a weight that is less than minimally normal or, for children and adolescents, less than that minimally expected;
              1.            Intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behaviour that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significantly low weight;
              2.            Restricting type: During the last 3 months, the