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

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1691
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and application

(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.

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

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

(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.