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Amendment Statement of Principles

concerning

SEBORRHOEIC KERATOSIS
(Reasonable Hypothesis)

(No. 38 of 2024)

The Repatriation Medical Authority determines the following Amendment Statement of Principles under subsections 196B(2) and (8) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

 

Dated                                            26 April 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Terence Campbell AM

Chairperson

by and on behalf of                                                         

The Repatriation Medical Authority

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Amendment

 


1               Name

This is the Amendment Statement of Principles concerning seborrhoeic keratosis (Reasonable Hypothesis) (No. 38 of 2024).

2               Commencement

              This instrument commences on 28 May 2024.

3               Authority

This instrument is made under subsections 196B(2) and (8) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.

4               Amendment

The Statement of Principles concerning seborrhoeic keratosis (Reasonable Hypothesis) (No. 19 of 2024) (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2024L00214) is amended in the following manner:

 

Section

Amendment

      9(2)

Replace the existing subsection 9(2) with the following:

 

for the Leser-Trélat sign only (sudden onset of >20 new seborrhoeic keratoses within 6 months), having a malignancy excluding non-melanotic malignant neoplasm of the skin, within 1 year before clinical onset;