The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

Construction of Section A

43.—(1) Regulation 34 applies for the construction of this Section as it applies for the construction of Section E of Part III.

(2) Except as provided in this Section, any reference in Part II of the Administration Act or in these Regulations to the relevant accident shall be construed as a reference to the relevant disease and any reference to the date of the relevant accident shall be construed as a reference to the date of onset of the relevant disease.

(3) In the following provisions of this Section any question arising in connection with a claim for, or award of, disablement benefit—

(a) whether any person is suffering or has suffered from a prescribed disease, is referred to as a diagnosis question;

(b) whether a prescribed disease has, in fact, been contracted afresh in a case where that question arises under the provisions of regulation 7 or 8 of the Prescribed Diseases Regulations(1) is referred to as a recrudescence question.

(1)

Relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1989 No. 319 and S.R. 1993 Nos. 148 and 350