The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Amendment Regulations 1997

Made: 13th July 1997

Laid before Parliament: 24th June 1997

Coming into force: 1st September 1997

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[^f00001] 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

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997.

• (2) These Regulations shall apply in relation to any case in which a person first satisfies the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 on or after the date on which they come into force.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

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In the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988[^f00002]—

• (a) for the Schedule to those Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations;

• (b) in regulations 5(1) and 8 (minimum amounts payable to dependant), for the amount of £1,803 there shall be substituted the amount of £1,852;

• (c) in regulation 6(1) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for the amount of £3,731 there shall be substituted the amount of £3,832.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Angela Eagle — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 13th July 1997

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 2.7 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1979 c. 41; section 1 of the Act was amended by section 24 of the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/668, as amended by S.I. 1989/552, 1990/825, 1991/899, 1992/403, 1993/1158, 1995/1514, S.I. 1996/1979.