Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2022

I, Anne Ruston, Minister for Families and Social Services, make the following Specification.

Dated 21 January 2022   

Anne Ruston

Minister for Families and Social Services

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Medical Conditions

1  Name

  This instrument is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under paragraph 917C(3)(b) of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Social Security Act 1991.

5  Medical Conditions

(1)  Each of the following medical conditions is a specified medical condition for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(b) of the Act:

(a)    Spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level;

(b)    Stroke;

(c)    Brain injury;

(d)    Neurodegenerative disorder;

(e)    Muscular dystrophies;

(f)     Full thickness burns covering more than 20 per cent of the body surface area;

(g)    Rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands;

(h)    Chronic erythrodermas.