means an epidemiological study conducted by, or on behalf of, the Commonwealth.

includes a tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions, but does not include the Commonwealth Ombudsman.

includes any record of information, however recorded or stored, whether in written or printed form, on film, by electronic means or otherwise and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes an article containing an image produced by photography, x‐rays or otherwise.

means a study of:

(a) the incidence or distribution, within the population of a country, or a part of a country, or within a particular group of persons, or within a sample or sub‐sample of such a population or group, of:

(i) a disease;

means:

(a) the Vietnam Veterans Study; or

(b) a Commonwealth epidemiological study declared by the regulations to be a study to which this Act applies.

means the Commonwealth epidemiological study that commenced in 1980 in relation to:

(a) persons who were members of the Defence Force at any time between 1 January 1962 and 31 December 1972, whether or not they served in Vietnam; and