Amendment Statement of Principles
concerning
 
ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE
No. 97 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 ischaemic heart disease No. 97 of 2010.
 
2.                    The Repatriation Medical Authority amends, under subsection 196B(8) of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, Statement of Principles concerning ischaemic heart disease Instrument No. 90 of 2007, as amended by Instrument No. 44 of 2009, by:
 
(A)             Inserting a new factor "(pa)" immediately following factor "(p)" in clause 6 as follows:
"(pa)           For acute myocardial infarction only, having an episode of acute cholinergic poisoning from exposure to an organophosphorus ester within the 14 days before the clinical onset of ischaemic heart disease; or";
 
(B)             Inserting a new factor "(ffa)" immediately following factor "(ff)" in clause 6 as follows:
"(ffa)          For acute myocardial infarction only, having an episode of acute cholinergic poisoning from exposure to an organophosphorus ester within the 14 days before the clinical worsening of ischaemic heart disease; or"
and
(C)             Inserting new definitions for "acute cholinergic poisoning" and "an organophosphorus ester" in clause 9 as follows:
 
'"acute cholinergic poisoning" means symptoms and signs due to the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase enzyme activity which occur within the 24 hours following exposure.  These symptoms and signs are: acute paralysis, overwhelming bronchial secretions, bradycardia, gastrointestinal distress, miosis, lacrimation or diarrhoea;'
'"an organophosphorus ester" means an agent used to inhibit acetylcholinesterase, and includes the organophosphate pesticides chlorpyrifos, dichlorvos, EPN (ethyl p-nitrophenyl theonobenzenephosphonate), leptophos, methamidophos, mipafox (diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate), omethoate, parathion, TOCP (tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate), trichlorfon and trichlornat;'.
 
3.                    The amendment made by this instrument applies to all matters to which Instrument No. 90 of 2007, as amended by Instrument No. 44 of 2009, section 120B of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 and section 339 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 apply.
 
4.                    The amendment made by this instrument takes effect from 10 November 2010.
 
Dated this       twenty-seventh       day of              October            2010
 
 
 
The Common Seal of the                  )
Repatriation Medical Authority       )
was affixed to this instrument          )
in the presence of                              )
KEN DONALD
CHAIRPERSON