The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2003

Transitional provision

6.—(1) Regulations 2 and 5 shall not apply—

(a) to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made before the commencement date;

(b) to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date; or

(c) where a person suffers from an attack of a disease and under regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (recrudescence) the attack is a recrudescence of a disease for which a claim was made before the commencement date (or within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date).

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) “commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;

(b) the date on which a claim is made is the date on which the claim is made or treated as made in accordance with the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987(1); and

(c) a period of assessment which begins on the day following the end of a preceding period of assessment, shall be treated as a continuation of the preceding period of assessment.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1968; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/1686, 1990/725 and 2208, 1991/2741, 1997/793, 1999/2572.