Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012
Social Security Act 1991
I, JENNY MACKLIN, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform, acting under paragraph 917C(3)(b) of the Social Security Act 1991 make this Specification.
Dated 21st March 2012
J Macklin
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform
1 Name of Specification
This Specification is the Social Security (Essential Medical Equipment Payment – Medical Conditions) Specification 2012.
2 Commencement
This Specification commences on 18 June 2012.
3 Definition
In this Specification:
Act means the Social Security Act 1991.
4 Medical conditions
Each medical condition specified in Schedule 1 is a specified medical condition for the purposes of paragraph 917C(1)(b) of the Act.
Schedule 1 Medical conditions
Spinal cord injury at or above the T7 level
Stroke
Brain injury
A neurodegenerative disorder
The muscular dystrophies
Full thickness burns covering more than 20 per cent of the body surface area
Rare disorders of sweating including congenital absence or mal-development of sweat glands
Chronic erythrodermas
