The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1938
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1991, shall come into force on 26th September 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 .

Section 2 Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

(1) In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed) after the entry relating to disease numbered “B11.Q fever” there shall be inserted the following entries—

(2) In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the entry relating to the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) shall be amended by inserting after sub-paragraph (n), the following sub-paragraphs:—

(o) animals including insects and other arthropods or their larval forms, used for the purposes of pest control or fruit cultivation, or the larval forms of animals used for the purposes of research, education or in laboratories;

(p) glutaraldehyde;

(q) persulphate salts or henna;

(r) crustaceans or fish or products arising from these in the food processing industry;

(s) reactive dyes;

(t) soya bean;

(u) tea dust;

(v) green coffee bean dust;

(w) fumes from stainless steel welding;

(x) any other sensitising agent.

Section 3 Time at which a person is to be treated as having developed the prescribed disease

The time at which a person shall be treated as having developed prescribed diseases B12 or B13 or occupational asthma, which is due to exposure to the agents listed in paragraph D7(o) to (x) of Part I Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, shall be the first day on which that person is incapable of work, or suffering from a loss of faculty as a result of those diseases falling after 25th September 1991.