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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2005 No. 414

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

  Made 1st March 2005 
  Coming into force 1st April 2005 

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 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

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



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.


Jane Kennedy
Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions

1st March 2005



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 further amend the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988 so as to increase the amounts payable under the Act. The increase in each case is 3.1 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.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.


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, 2000/1118, 2001/3525 and 2004/726.back



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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 15 March 2005


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