Amendment Statement of Principles

concerning

INTERVERTEBRAL DISC PROLAPSE

No. 38 of 2010

for the purposes of the

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

1. This Instrument may be cited as Statement of Principles concerning intervertebral disc prolapse No. 38 of 2010.

2.                     The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(8) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, Statement of Principles concerning intervertebral disc prolapse Instrument No. 39 of 2007, as amended by Instrument No. 80 of 2008, by:

(A)            Replacing factor "(da)" in clause 6 with the following:

"(da) flying in a powered aircraft as operational aircrew, for a cumulative total of at least 2500 hours within the ten years before the clinical onset of intervertebral disc prolapse; or";

(B)             Replacing factor "(ka)" in clause 6 with the following:

"(ka) flying in a powered aircraft as operational aircrew, for a cumulative total of at least 2500 hours within the ten years before the clinical worsening of intervertebral disc prolapse; or"; and

(C)             Replacing the definition of "high performance aircraft" in clause 9 with the following:

'"high performance aircraft" means an aircraft capable of generating an acceleration force (G force) of four G or more, during routine, normal operations;'.

3.                     The amendment made by this instrument applies to all matters to which Instrument No. 39 of 2007, as amended by Instrument No. 80 of 2008, section 120A of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 and section 338 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 apply.

4.                     The amendments made by this instrument take effect from 12 May 2010.

Dated this twenty-second day of  April              2010.

The Common Seal of the  )

Repatriation Medical Authority )

was affixed to this instrument )

in the presence of   )

KEN DONALD

CHAIRPERSON