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.