Retirement Savings Accounts Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1) (8 of 2008)

Schedule 1   Amendments

[5]   After regulation 4.01

insert

4.01A Meaning of terminal medical condition

For Schedule 2, a terminal medical condition exists in relation to a person at a particular time if the following circumstances exist:

(a) two registered medical practitioners have certified, jointly or separately, that the person suffers from an illness, or has incurred an injury, that is likely to result in the death of the person within a period (the certification period ) that ends not more than 12 months after the date of the certification;

(b) at least one of the registered medical practitioners is a specialist practicing in an area related to the illness or injury suffered by the person;

(c) for each of the certificates, the certification period has not ended.