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5.—(1) Under this Part, awards may be made in accordance with this Order in respect of the disablement of a member of the armed forces which is due to service before 6th April 2005 and may be made provisionally or upon any other basis.
(2) An award in respect of the disablement of a member shall not be made to take effect before the termination of his service or, in the case of an officer, while he is an officer on the Active List.
(3) Except where paragraph (4) applies, an award under this Part of this Order shall not be made in respect of—
(a)noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss; or
(b)a related condition or symptom if it is accompanied by noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss
unless the degree of disablement from that loss alone is assessed as being at least 20 per cent.
(4) Where the degree of the disablement in respect of noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss, or in respect of such hearing loss and a related condition or symptom, is assessed at less than 20 per cent, and a claim for an award in respect of that disablement was made prior to 7th January 1993, payment of any award resulting from that claim shall be made as though paragraph (3) were omitted.
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