Amendment Statement of Principles

concerning

MALIGNANT NEOPLASM OF THE BREAST

No. 82 of 2018

for the purposes of the

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

and

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

1. This Instrument may be cited as Amendment Statement of Principles concerning malignant neoplasm of the breast No. 82 of 2018.
2. The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(8) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986, Statement of Principles concerning malignant neoplasm of the breast Instrument No. 97 of 2014 (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2017C00765) by repealing factor "(d)" in clause 6 and substituting the following:

"(d)              for parous women only, inability to breast feed for a cumulative period of at least six months before the clinical onset of malignant neoplasm of the breast; or

Note: The period of breastfeeding could be cumulative over a number of pregnancies."

3.                       The amendment made by this instrument commences on 24 September 2018.

Dated this   twenty-fourth   day of   August   2018