The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Made: 3rd March 2025

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)

The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 3(3), 4(3) and 11(1) and (4) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979[^f00001] and now vested in it[^f00002].

Citation, commencement and application

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2025 or the day after they are affirmed by resolution of the Assembly if later.

• (2) These Regulations apply only in relation to any case in which a person first satisfies the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 on or after the day on which these Regulations come into operation.

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

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• (1) The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988[^f00003] are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

• (2) In regulation 5(2) (payment where death results from diffuse mesothelioma) and regulation 7 (minimum amount payable to dependant) for “£4,024” substitute “£4,092”.

• (3) In regulation 6(1)(a) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis) for “£8,324” substitute “£8,466”.

• (4) In the Schedule—

• (a) for Table 1, after the preamble, substitute the Table set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

• (b) in Table 2 for Parts A and B substitute Parts A and B set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

PART 1

PART 2

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 3rd March 2025

David Tarr — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Under the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/925 (N.I.9)) (“the Order”) lump sum payments may be made to certain persons disabled by a disease to which the Order applies, or to dependants of persons who were so disabled before they died.

These Regulations amend the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (S.R. 1988 No. 242) to increase the amounts payable under the Order. The increase in each case is 1.7 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

By virtue of regulation 1(2), the amendments made by these Regulations apply only in relation to any case in which a person first fulfils the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Order on or after the day on which these Regulations come into operation.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1979/925 (N.I. 9); Articles 3 and 4 were amended by Article 22(a) and (b) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1209 (N.I. 16)), paragraph 17(2) to (4) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I. 18)) and paragraphs 4 and 5 of Schedule 2 to the Mesothelioma Act 2014 (c. 1); Article 3 was amended by section 52(3) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c.2 (N.I.)) and Article 4 was amended by Part 6 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1))

[^f00002]: See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481, the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 15 (N.I.)), Article 3 of S.R. 2006 No. 192 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00003]: S.R. 1988 No. 242; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2008 No. 352 and S.R. 2024 No. 47

Editorial notes

[^key-07aa563aed0d4052b137c8518ec42baa]: Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)

[^key-334ff79d457b73406ce0a76de6b1bdac]: Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)

[^key-34bedd04ca75bf1a6e777ea28a55f166]: Sch. Pt. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)

[^key-718e5b37a136fc0f49cde29fb783a164]: Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2)