The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (“the principal Regulations”) and come into force on 19 April 1993.

Regulation 6 provides for the prescription of two further industrial diseases—

(i) carpal tunnel syndrome, where the disease is contracted as a result of the use of hand-held vibrating tools (disease A12); and

(ii) primary carcinoma of the lung accompanied by silicosis, which is prescribed in relation to occupations associated with the use of free silica (disease D11).

The existing prescription of primary neoplasm of the bladder (disease C23) is extended by regulation 6(3) to apply to cases associated with the Soderberg aluminium smelting process.

Regulation 6(4) amends the description of disease D10 from “lung cancer” to “primary carcinoma of the lung”.

Regulation 2 removes from the interpretation provision of the principal Regulations the definition of “lung cancer” and inserts a definition of “primary carcinoma of the lung” as a consequence of the change made by regulation 6(4).

Regulation 3 disapplies the presumption that a prescribed disease is due to the nature of a person’s employment in the case of carpal tunnel syndrome (prescribed disease A12).

Regulation 5 excludes the application of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (which deals with the recrudescence of certain prescribed diseases) in relation to the newly prescribed disease D11.

Regulation 7 contains a revocation.