The Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 1997

Made: 13th March 1997

Laid before Parliament: 17th March 1997

Coming into force: 7th April 1997

The Secretary of State for Social Security, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

Citation and commencement

1

This Scheme may be cited as the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 1997 and shall come into force on 7th April 1997.

Amendment of the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982

2

For Article 18 of the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982[^f00002] (sums not payable when delay in claiming) there shall be substituted the following Article—

(18) An allowance shall not be payable to any person in respect of any period more than three months before the claim for the allowance is made.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Roger Evans — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Social Security — 13th March 1997

We consent,

Patrick McLoughlin — Bowen Wells — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 13th March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

This Scheme amends the Workmen’s Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982 (S.I. 1982/1489) by limiting to three months the period of backdating for an allowance.

This Scheme does not impose any costs on business.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c. 4.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1982/1489.