SCHEDULE 4 Amendments and Transitional Provisions
Part I MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 (c. 16)
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(1)
Section 7 of the Industrial Injuries and Disease (Old Cases) Act 1975 (nature and amount of benefit under industrial diseases benefit schemes) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (3), in paragraph (a), for the words “55” and “55 and 56” there are substituted respectively “
58
”
and “
58 and 19
”
; and that paragraph shall have effect as if it has been enacted as so amended.
(3)
“(c)
where the person is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child or children, by an amount equal to any increase which would be payable under section 41 of that Act in respect of that child or those children if he were entitled to sickness benefit ;
(d)
where the person is treated under the provisions of the scheme as residing with his wife or contributing at a weekly rate of not less than the relevant amount towards her maintenace, by the relevant amount (that is to say an amount equal to any increase which would be payable under section 44 of that Act in respect of her if he were entitled to sickness benefit).”.
(4)
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