Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 825

The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

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1990 No. 825

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 7 of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979^[1] ("the Act") and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations, of which a draft has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:-

Citation and commencement
    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990 in relation to any case in which a person first satisfies the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Act on or after that date.

Interpretation
    2.    In these Regulations the "principal Regulations" means the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988^[2].

Amendment of the principal Regulations
    3.—(1)  The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Regulation.

    (2)  
 (a) the Schedule to these Regulations shall be substituted for the Schedule to those Regulations, and
 (b) the amount of £1,473 shall be substituted for the amount of £1,364 in Regulations 5(1) and 8 of those Regulations, and the amount of £3,048 shall be substituted for the amount of £2,822 in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations,

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

Patrick Nicholls

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment

30th March 1990

[1] 1979 c. 41; sections 1 and 4 of the Act were amended by section 24 of the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53) and section 2 was amended by section 39 of and Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50). back

[2] S.I. 1988/668, as amended by S.I. 1989/552. back

Explanatory Note