Changes to the list of Statements of Principles and names of conditions, August 2021
Changes to the list of Statements of Principles and names of conditions, August 2021
On 5 August 2021 changes were made to:
- the list of Australian Statements of Principles that apply in New Zealand
- the list of accepted late-onset conditions.
Statements of Principles
The Statements of Principles are a tool to determine if an injury, illness or death is service-related.
More information on Statements of Principles
The Veterans' Support Amendment Regulations (No 4) 2021 brought into force 2 new and 16 replacement Statements of Principles.
These Statements of Principles cover:
- acute lymphoblastic leukaemia/lymphoblastic lymphoma
- ankylosing spondlylitis
- asthma
- deep vein thrombosis
- malignant neoplasm of the kidney
- posterior tibialis tendinopathy
- pulmonary thromboembolism
- seborrhoeic dermatitis.
Veterans' Support Amendment Regulations (No 4) 2021(external link)
Australian Government Repatriation Medical Authority's website(external link)
Accepted late-onset conditions
The names of several conditions on the list of accepted late-onset conditions at Schedule 2A of the Veterans’ Support Regulations have been updated, either to correct misspellings, or to align the names with the current names of Statements of Principles from which they were derived.
See the amendment regulation cited below for more information on these changes. Accepted late-onset conditions are conditions that could be accepted as being linked to specific exposure or events occurring during qualifying operational service. They are applied to Scheme Two veterans only. Their purpose is to ensure that families of veterans whose death was the result of a late-onset malignancy or other physical or mental disorder receive entitlements under the Veterans’ Support Act 2014.
Veterans' Support Amendment Regulations (No 4) 2021(external link)
Table of name changes of conditions
| Previous name of condition | New name of condition | Notes |
| acute lymphoblastic leukaemia | acute lymphoblastic leukaemia/lymphoblastic lymphoma | |
| alzheimer-type dementia | Alzheimer disease | |
| aortic aneurysm | aortic aneurysm and aortic wall disorders | |
| - | cardiomyopathy | the Statements of Principles now include familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy within cardiomyopathy, so familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has been deleted |
| carotid arterial disease | carotid artery disease | |
| Cushing’s syndrome | Cushing syndrome | |
| Cut, stab, abrasion and laceration | cut, stab, abrasion and laceration | |
| dengue fever | dengue virus infection | |
| - | explosive blast injury | previously included in physical injury due to munitions discharge which has been deleted |
| - | gunshot injury | previously included in physical injury due to munitions discharge which has been deleted |
| haemochromatosis | hereditary haemochromatosis | |
| human immunodeficiency virus | human immunodeficiency virus infection | |
| human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 | human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 infection | |
| extrinsic allergic alveolitis | hypersensitivity pneumonitis | |
| immune thrombocytopaenic purpura | immune thrombocytopaenia | |
| Kaposi’s sarcoma | Kaposi sarcoma | |
| malignant neoplasm of the testis and paratesticular tissue | malignant neoplasm of the testis and paratesticular tissues | |
| adenocarcinoma of the kidney | malignant neoplasm of the kidney | |
| meliodosis | melioidosis | |
| microscopic polyantiitis | microscopic polyangiitis | |
| myelodysplastic disorder | myelodysplastic syndrome | |
| - | neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies | previously included with alzheimer-type dementia |
| non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | non-Hodgkin lymphoma | |
| osteogenesis imperfecta | osteogenesis imperfecta | |
| Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism | Parkinson’s disease and secondary parkinsonism | |
| peritonal adhesions | peritoneal adhesions | |
| poisoning and toxic reaction from plants and fungi | poisoning from plants or fungi | |
| post-traumatic stress disorder | posttraumatic stress disorder | |
| rapidly progressing crescentic glomerulonephritis | rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis | |
| schistomosomiasis | schistosomiasis | |
| thromboagniitis obliterans | thromboangiitis obliterans |