The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2008

• Citation: S.I. 2008/1552
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 21st July 2008.

Section 2 Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985

(1) Part I of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed) is amended as follows.

(2) In the first column of the entry relating to prescribed disease D12, omit “accompanying”.

(3) For the entry in the second column relating to prescribed disease D12, substitute—

Exposure to coal dust (whether before or after 5th July 1948) by reason of working—

(a) underground in a coal mine for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 20 years;

(b) on the surface of a coal mine as a screen worker for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 40 years before 1st January 1983; or

(c) both underground in a coal mine, and on the surface as a screen worker before 1st January 1983, where 2 years working as a surface screen worker is equivalent to 1 year working underground, amounting in aggregate to at least the equivalent of 20 years underground.

Any such period or periods shall include a period or periods of incapacity while engaged in such an occupation.