PART VII U.K.ADJUDICATION

Review – exceptional circumstancesU.K.

48.—(1) The Secretary of State may revise an award of injury benefit [F2or of an additional multiple injury lump sum] if the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are satisfied and an application for a review is sent to the Veterans Agency.

(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are that, within the period of 10 years starting with the date of the final decision [F3to award injury benefit], the injury in respect of which the final decision was made either has—

(a)become worse; or

(b)caused a further injury to develop

and in both cases—

(i)the worsening or the development is unexpected and exceptional, and

(ii)the injury, or the injury and the further injury together, would, on the date of the application for review, attract an amount specified in column (b) of Table 10 of the tariff which is higher than that awarded under the final decision.

(3) An application for review under this article may only be made within the period of one year starting with the day on which the worsening or the development began.

(4) The Secretary of State may only review an award under this article once.

(5) An application for a review under this article shall—

(a)be in writing;

(b)F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)be signed by or on behalf of the person making the application; and

(d)specify the ground on which the application is made.

(6) The decision of the Secretary of State on an application for review under this article and the reasons for the decision shall be in writing and shall be given or sent to the applicant who shall, at the same time, be informed of his right—

(a)to a reconsideration of the decision under article 45; and

(b)to appeal to a Pensions Appeal Tribunal under section 5A(1) of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943.

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