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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2005 No. 59

SOCIAL SECURITY

Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

  Made 1st March 2005 
  To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000
  Coming into operation 10th April 2005 

The Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 2(2)[1], 3(3), 4(3), 11(1) and (4) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979[2] and now vested in it[3] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 10th April 2005.

    (2) In these Regulations -

Amendment of the principal Regulations
     2.  - (1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4) in relation to any case in which a person first satisfies the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Order on or after the day on which these Regulations come into operation.

    (2) For the Schedule to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

    (3) In regulations 5(2) (payment where death results from diffuse mesothelioma) and 7 (minimum amount payable to dependant), for "£2,180" (in each place where it occurs) there shall be substituted "£2,248".

    (4) In regulation 6(1) (payment where pneumoconiosis is accompanied by tuberculosis), for "£4,509" (in each place where it occurs) there shall be substituted "£4,649".



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on


1st March 2005.

L.S.


T. Devine
A senior officer of the Department for Employment and Learning


SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(2)




EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


Under the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 ("the Order") lump sum payments may be made to certain persons disabled by a disease to which the Order applies, or to dependants of persons who were so disabled immediately before they died.

These Regulations further amend the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 so as to increase the amount payable as prescribed under the Order. The increase in each case is 3.1 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

The diseases to which the Order applies are pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, primary carcinoma of the lung (where accompanied by asbestosis or diffuse pleural thickening) and diffuse pleural thickening.

A regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this rule as it has no impact on the costs of business.


Notes:

[1] See the definitions of "Department" and "prescribed". The Department of Manpower Services was renamed the Department of Economic Development: See S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Article 3back

[2] S.I. 1979/925 (N.I. 9); relevant amending legislation is S.I. 1985/1209 (N.I. 16) Article 22, S.I. 1986/1888 (N.I. 18) Article 40 and Schedule 3, paragraph 17 and 1992 c. 9 section 4 and Schedule 2, paragraph 22back

[3] The Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 481) transferred functions under the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 from the Department of Economic Development to the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, now renamed the Department for Employment and Learning by the Department for Employment and Learning Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 c. 15back

[4] S.R. 1988 No. 242 as amended by S.R. 1989 No. 240, S.R. 1991 No. 120, S.R. 1992 No. 213, S.R. 1993 No. 325, S.R. 1995 No. 338, S.R. 1996 No. 485, S.R. 1997 No. 409, S.R. 1998 No. 358, S.R. 2000 No. 134, S.R. 2002 No. 133, S.R. 2004 No. 124 and S.R. 2004 No. 214back



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Prepared 9 March 2005


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