The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 No. 1958 (C. 51)

SCHEDULE 8 AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) (PRESCRIBED DISEASES) REGULATIONS 1985

15.  For regulation 32 (no appeal against initial provisional assessment of disablement in respect of occupational deafness) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“No appeal against a decision of disablement in respect of occupational deafness

32.   No appeal shall lie against an initial provisional assessment of the extent of disablement in respect of occupational deafness.”.