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