Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 3525

      The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2001


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 3525

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

  Made 30th October 2001 
  Coming into force 1st December 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1), (2) and (4) and 7 of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979[1] 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, commencement and application
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st December 2001.

    (2) These Regulations shall apply 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 Regulations
    
2. In the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988[2] - 

    (a) for the Schedule to those Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations;

    (b) in regulations 5(1) and 8 (minimum amounts payable to dependant), for the amount £1,992 there shall be substituted the amount £2,068;

    (c) in regulation 6(1) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for the amount £4,121 (in both places) there shall be substituted the amount £4,278.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Alan Whitehead
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

30th October 2001



SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(a)






EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979 ("the Act") lump sum payments may be made to certain persons disabled by a disease to which the Act applies, or to dependants of persons who were so disabled immediately before they died.

These Regulations amend the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988, as amended, so as to increase the amount payable under the Act. The increase in each case is 3.8 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

The diseases to which the Act applies are pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, primary carcinoma of the lung (where accompanied by asbestosis or diffuse pleural thickening) and diffuse pleural thickening.


Notes:

[1] 1979 c. 41: section 1 of the Act was amended by section 24 of the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53).back

[2] S.I. 1988/668, as amended by S.I. 1989/552, 1990/825, 1991/899, 1992/403, 1993/1158, 1995/1514, 1996/1979, 1997/1691, 1998/1840 and 2000/1118.back



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