Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”) as amended by the Pneumoconiosis, etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) of 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 prescribe the amount of payments to be made under the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (“the Order”), as amended by the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 and the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, to persons disabled by a disease to which the Order applies (namely pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, primary carcinoma of the lung (where accompanied by asbestosis or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening) and bilateral diffuse pleural thickening) or to dependants of persons who immediately before they died were disabled by such a disease. All such persons should satisfy the conditions of entitlement prescribed in Article 3 (Payments to disabled persons) or, as the case may be, Article 4 (Payments to dependants of disabled persons) of the Order.

These Regulations further amend the 1988 Regulations by increasing the amount of the payments laid down by the 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Regulations in any case in which a person first becomes entitled to a payment on or after the date when these Regulations come into operation. The increase in each case is 2.1 per cent. rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.