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The Water Officers (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 1968

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Amendment of the principal regulations

3.  In regulation 2 (which defines the expressions used in the regulations)—

(a)in the definition of “relevant employment” in paragraph (1), after the word “means” there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (2A) of this regulation”;

(b)after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph—

(2A) Except as provided in regulations 6(2) and 12(2) of these regulations, the expression “relevant employmentshall not include service in the armed forces of the Crown..

4.  For paragraph (a) of regulation 8(1) (which provides for calculation of the amount of resettlement compensation) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(a)unemployment, sickness or injury benefit under any Act relating to National Insurance claimable by him in respect of such week (excluding any amount claimable by him in respect of any dependant);.

5.  The following regulation shall be inserted after regulation 33—

Deduction in respect of National Insurance benefits

33A.(1) Where in any week a person is entitled to long-term compensation for loss or diminution of emoluments and is also entitled to unemployment, sickness or injury benefit under any Act relating to National Insurance, other than a benefit claimable by him in respect of a dependant, there shall be deducted from the long-term compensation payable for that week a sum equal to the amount by which the aggregate of such National Insurance benefits claimable in respect of that week, the weekly rate at which the long-term compensation would be payable but for this regulation, and the weekly rate of any superannuation benefit taken into account for the purpose of regulation 15(4) of these regulations, exceeds two-thirds of the weekly rate of the net emoluments of the employment which he has lost or in which the emoluments have been diminished:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any such sickness or injury benefit insofar as an equivalent sum is deducted from the emoluments of his current employment and such deduction from those emoluments has not occasioned an increase in his long-term compensation.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this regulation the expression “weekly rate” means seven three hundred and sixty-fifths of the relevant annual rate..

6.  In regulation 34 (which requires certain changes of circumstance to be notified to the compensating authority), after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

or (d) a person entitled to long-term compensation is receiving or starts to receive any benefit, any increase in benefit or any further benefit under any Act relating to National Insurance,.

7.  In regulation 35 (which relates to the review of awards of compensation), in paragraph (7), for the words “regulation 32 or 33” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 32, 33 or 33A”.

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