Citation, commencement and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.
(2) These Regulations shall apply in relation to any case in which a person first fulfils the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979 on or after the day on which they come into force.
Amendment of the Regulations
2. In the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988(1)—
(a)for the Schedule to those Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations;
(b)in regulations 5(1) and 8 (minimum amounts payable to dependant), for the amount £2,068 there shall be substituted the amount £2,180;
(c)in regulation 6(1) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for the amount £4,278 (in both places) there shall be substituted the amount £4,509.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Des Browne
Minister of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
11th March 2004