The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations the “principal Regulations” means the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988(1).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 4(6)(a)–

(a) for the word “if” there shall be substituted the words “in cases where”;

(b) after the word “dependant” in sub-paragraph (i) there shall be inserted the words “by reason of the deceased’s death as a result of the disease”.

(3) The following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (ii) of regulation 5(1)(a):–

“(ii) where disablement benefit in respect of a disease was not payable to the deceased immediately before he died death benefit is payable to or in respect of the said dependant by reason of the deceased’s death as a result of the disease, or”

(4) (a) the Schedule to these Regulations shall be substituted for the Schedule to those Regulations, and

(b) the amount of £1,364 shall be substituted for the amount of £1,263 in regulations 5(1) and 8 of those Regulations, and the amount of £2,822 shall be substituted for the amount of £2,613 in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations,

in any case in which a person first satisfies the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Act on or after the date upon which these Regulations come into force.

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

Patrick Nicholls

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Employment

22nd March 1989