The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2538

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1990

Made

10th December 1990

Laid before Parliament

19th December 1990

Coming into force

9th January 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security, after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971(1) and with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2, 4(2), (3), (4) and (8), 5(1) and 8(1) of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

(1)

1971 c. 62.

(2)

1975 c. 16; section 2(6)was amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 67 with savings by article 3 of S.I. 1987/354 (retired people); the amount in section 2(6)(c) was substituted by article 6 of S.I. 1990/320; section 4(2) was amended by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 10(1); section 4(4) was amended by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c. 5), section 11(1)(a) and the Social Security Act 1986, Schedule 11; section 4(8) was amended by the Social Security Act 1986, Schedule 10, paragraph 68(1) and the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27), Schedule 6, paragraph 12; and sections 2(1), 5(1) and 4(4)(e) were amended by that Act, section 16(8).