Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 19882

1

The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 19882 are amended as follows.

2

Omit regulation 2(1)(g) (definition of “extent of incapacity”).

3

In regulation 3(2) (payments to persons disabled by a disease), omit “Part A of”.

4

Omit regulation 3(3).

5

In regulation 4(2) (payments to dependants of persons disabled by a disease), omit “or extent of incapacity, as the case may be,”.

6

In regulation 4(6)(b)—

a

for “or extent of incapacity, as the case may be, for the purposes of Parts A and B of the aforesaid Table,” substitute “for the purposes of Part A of Table 2”;

b

omit “or extent of incapacity” the second time those words appear;

c

omit “or “partial” respectively”.

7

In the proviso to regulation 5(1) (minimum amount payable to dependant), for “£2,873” substitute “£2,936”.

8

In regulation 6(1)(a) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for “£5,942” (in both places) substitute “£6,073”.

9

In regulation 6(1)(b), omit “Part A of”.

10

In the proviso to regulation 7 (power of Secretary of State to determine amount of payment), omit paragraph (c).

11

In regulation 8 (minimum amount payable to dependant), for “£2,873” substitute “£2,936”.

12

For the Schedule to those Regulations, substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.