(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations contain amendments to regulations relating to industrial injuries benefits.
Regulation 2 provides that airmen are not to be disqualified for receiving reduced earnings allowance whilst absent from Great Britain in the course of their employment. Regulation 3 provides similarly in relation to mariners.
Regulation 4 enables the probable standard of remuneration in comparable occupational groups which is used for the purpose of determining the level of reduced earnings allowance payable to beneficiaries to take account of falls as well as increases in the earnings of those groups.
Regulation 5 provides for references in the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 to death benefit to include a reference to benefit in respect of which contribution conditions are taken to be satisfied where an employed earner dies as a result of a personal injury or an industrial disease.
As the provisions contained in regulations 2 and 3 have the same effect as the superseded provisions, these Regulations are not required to be approved by resolution of each House of Parliament (section 167(2)(c) of the Social Security Act 1975).