The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/646
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation, commencement and retrospective effect

These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1997 and, save as hereinafter provided , shall have effect from 1st April 1997.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1995 and other expressions have the same meaning as in those Regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations—

(a) in the proviso to the definition of “average remuneration” after the words “senior registrar, registrar,” there shall be inserted the words “specialist registrar,”; and

(b) after the definition of “practitioner” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“quarter” means a 3 month period ending on the last day of March, June, September or December.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

(1) In regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations—

(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (5),”; and

(b) there shall be deleted the words from “, but, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (5) applies,” to the end.

(2) For regulation 4(5) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following—

(5) Where, on or after 1st April 1991, a person to whom regulation 3(1) of these Regulations applies or to whom regulation 3(1) of the previous Regulations applied is or was on leave of absence from an employment mentioned in those regulations with reduced emoluments by reason of the injury or disease, there shall be payable by that person’s employing authority on behalf of the Secretary of State, during or in respect of the period of such leave and without regard to any reduction in the person’s earning ability, an annual allowance of the amount, if any, which when added to the aggregate of—

(a) the emoluments payable to the person during his leave of absence, and

(b) the value, expressed as an annual amount, of any of the pensions and benefits specified in paragraph (6) (including the value of any equivalent benefits payable under the enactments consolidated by the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992), will provide an income of 85 per cent. of his average remuneration.

Section 5 Insertion of regulation 4A into the principal Regulations

After regulation 4 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Recovery of costs

(4A)

(1) Where, during the period commencing 1st April 1991 and ending 31st March 1997, a lump sum under regulation 4(9) or 11 of these Regulations or regulation 4(9) or 11 of the previous regulations was paid to or in respect of a person to whom regulation 3(1) of these Regulations applies or, as the case may be, to or in respect of a person to whom regulation 3(1) of the previous Regulations applied, that person’s employing authority shall be liable to pay a contribution to the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph (4) representing the total amount of that lump sum together with the cost of providing increases to it under Part I of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where, on or after 1st April 1997, a claim is made for an allowance or lump sum under paragraph (2), (3), (4) or (9) of regulation 4, or regulation 7, 8, 9 or 11 by or in respect of a person to whom regulation 3(1) of these Regulations applies, that person’s employing authority shall, on the payment by the Secretary of State pursuant to that claim of the allowance or any part of it, or, as the case may be, of the lump sum, be liable to pay a contribution to the Secretary of State in accordance with paragraph (5) representing—

(a) the total amount of such allowance or such part, or,

(b) the total amount of such lump sum,

together with the cost of providing increases to it under Part I of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to any claim made on or after 1st April 1997 where that claim is made in respect of a person who dies on or after that date but who was, before that date, in receipt of an allowance or lump sum under paragraph (2), (3), (4) or (9) of regulation 4 or who would, before that date, have received such an allowance or lump sum under any of those paragraphs but for—

(a) the fact that his earning ability was not permanently reduced by more than 10 per cent. in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (1) of regulation 4; or

(b) the application of paragraph (4) or (6) of regulation 4 to the calculation of his benefits under that regulation.

(4) Contributions payable to the Secretary of State under paragraph (1) shall be paid not later than one month from the end of the quarter in which the lump sum referred to in that paragraph was paid, or, in any case where that period has expired, within such longer period as the Secretary of State may allow.

(5) Contributions payable to the Secretary of State under paragraph (2) shall be paid not later than one month from the end of the quarter in which the allowance or any part of it, or, as the case may be, the lump sum, referred to in that paragraph was paid.