PART 2THE COMPENSATION SCHEME

Injury and death – other exclusions12

Benefit is not payable to or in respect of a person by reason of an injury sustained by a member, the worsening of an injury, or death which is caused (wholly or partly) by—

a

the use or effect of tobacco;

b

the consumption of alcohol;

c

the non-therapeutic use of drugs;

d

consensual sexual activity;

e

except where article 9 applies, events, experiences, exposures and activities occurring before the member or former member entered service;

f

an illness which is—

i

caused by a single gene defect or is predominantly hereditary in origin;

ii

a personality disorder;

iii

an endogenous infection; or

iv

an exogenous infection except where the infection is acquired in a non-temperate region and the person infected has been exposed to the infection in the course of service or where, in a temperate region, there has been an outbreak of the infection in service accommodation or a workplace; or

g

a self-inflicted injury whether or not causing death except where the self-inflicting of injury is a result of a mental illness caused by service.