The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/1717
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2002, and shall come into force on 29th July 2002.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985

(1) The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 20 (special conditions for disablement benefit for pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and diffuse mesothelioma) in paragraphs (1), (1A) and (1B) for the words “, byssinosis or diffuse mesothelioma” there shall be substituted the words “or byssinosis”.

(3) After regulation 20 there shall be inserted the following new regulation:—

Diffuse mesothelioma—prescribed loss of faculty

(20A)

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (which provides for the assessment of the extent of disablement for the purposes of industrial injuries disablement benefit), the loss of faculty set out in paragraph (2) below is prescribed under sub-paragraph (d) of that paragraph 1 (loss of faculty from which the resulting disabilities are to be taken as amounting to 100 per cent. disablement).

(2) The loss of faculty referred to in paragraph (1) above is impaired function of the pleura, pericardium or peritoneum function caused by diffuse mesothelioma.