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.