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....................................................................................................................................... 6  \nTHE STATEMENTS OF PRINCIPLES SYSTEM ............................................................................................. 7  \nBackground ......................................................................................................................................... 7  \nThe Legislation .................................................................................................................................... 8  \nStatements of Principles ................................................................................................................... 10  \nMilitary Compensation-Statutory Bodies........................................................................................ 10  \nThe Repatriation Medical Authority ............................................................................................. 10  \nThe Specialist Medical Review Council ......................................................................................... 11  \nThe Commissions .......................................................................................................................... 11  \nDetermination of a Statement of Principles (SOP) ........................................................................... 11  \nInvestigations ................................................................................................................................ 12  \nFigure 1-Determination of Statements of Principles for new condition – Disease X.................. 14  \nSOUND MEDICAL-SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (SMSE) .................................................................................. 15  \nEvaluation of sound medical-scientific evidence .............................................................................. 15  \nQuality of evidence ........................................................................................................................... 15  \nSTANDARDS OF PROOF ......................................................................................................................... 16  \nApplying Standards of Proof ............................................................................................................. 16  \nHow the RMA interprets and applies the two Standards of Proof, .................................................. 17  \nLegal tests ..................................................................................................................................... 17  \nGrading Criteria ............................................................................................................................. 19  \nGLOSSARY.............................................................................................................................................. 20  \nAPPENDIX 1-History of the SOP system .............................................................................................. 21  \nANTECEDENTS ......................................................................................................................................... 22  \nEARLY DEVELOPMENT....................................................................................................................... 23  \nTHE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION ACT 1917 .................................................................. 24  \nTHE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION ACT 1920 ................................................................... 25  \nTHE BLACKBURN ROYAL COMMISSION ............................................................................................ 25  \nTHE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES ........................................................................................................... 26  \nWORLD WAR II 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