VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 5AB Repatriation Medical Authority and Specialist Medical Review Council definitions

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 5AB

  (1)   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Repatriation Medical Authority.

"Convener" means the Convener of the Review Council.

"councillor" means the Convener or any other person holding office as a member of the Review Council.

"member" means the Chairperson or any other person holding office as a member of the Repatriation Medical Authority.

"registered medical practitioner" means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory but does not include a person so registered or licensed:

  (a)   whose registration, or licence to practice, as a medical practitioner in any State or Territory has been suspended, or cancelled, following an inquiry relating to his or her conduct; and

  (b)   who has not, after that suspension or cancellation, again been authorised to register or practise as a medical practitioner in that State or Territory.

"Review Council" means the Specialist Medical Review Council established by section   196V.

"sound medical-scientific evidence" , in relation to a particular kind of injury, disease or death, has the meaning given by subsection   (2).

  (2)   Information about a particular kind of injury, disease or death is taken to be sound medical - scientific evidence if:

  (a)   the information:

  (i)   is consistent with material relating to medical science that has been published in a medical or scientific publication and has been, in the opinion of the Repatriation Medical Authority, subjected to a peer review process; or

  (ii)   in accordance with generally accepted medical practice, would serve as the basis for the diagnosis and management of a medical condition; and

  (b)   in the case of information about how that kind of injury, disease or death may be caused--meets the applicable criteria for assessing causation currently applied in the field of epidemiology.