The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988

2.—(1) The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988(1) are amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulation 2(1)(g) (definition of “extent of incapacity”).

(3) In regulation 3(2) (payments to persons disabled by a disease), omit “Part A of”.

(4) Omit regulation 3(3).

(5) In regulation 4(2) (payments to dependants of persons disabled by a disease), omit “or extent of incapacity, as the case may be,”.

(6) In regulation 4(6)(b)—

(a) for “or extent of incapacity, as the case may be, for the purposes of Parts A and B of the aforesaid Table,” substitute “for the purposes of Part A of Table 2”;

(b) omit “or extent of incapacity” the second time those words appear;

(c) omit “or “partial” respectively”.

(7) In the proviso to regulation 5(1) (minimum amount payable to dependant), for “£2,873” substitute “£2,936”.

(8) In regulation 6(1)(a) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for “£5,942” (in both places) substitute “£6,073”.

(9) In regulation 6(1)(b), omit “Part A of”.

(10) In the proviso to regulation 7 (power of Secretary of State to determine amount of payment), omit paragraph (c).

(11) In regulation 8 (minimum amount payable to dependant), for “£2,873” substitute “£2,936”.

(12) For the Schedule to those Regulations, substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1988/668; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/552, 2008/650 and 1963, 2009/747, 2010/1106, 2011/1026 and 2012/923.