Citation, commencement and application1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 1st April 2012.
2
These Regulations apply only in relation to any case in which a person first fulfils the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 on or after the day on which they come into force.
Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 19882
In the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 19882—
a
in regulations 5(1) and 8 (minimum amounts payable to dependant), for “£2,731” substitute “£2,873”;
b
in regulation 6(1)(a) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for “£5,648” (in both places) substitute “£5,942”; and
c
for the Schedule to those Regulations substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions