The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983

Increase of allowance in respect of children

6.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), for any period during which a person is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child or children within the meaning of sections 64 and 65 of the Social Security Act the weekly rate of the allowance payable to that person shall be increased by an amount equal to the increase (if any) which would be payable to him in respect of that child or those children under the said sections 64 and 65—

(a) if, in the case of a person entitled to an allowance in respect of total disablement but not to an increase of allowance under the provisions of article 7(1) , he were entitled to injury benefit;

(b) if, in the case of a person entitled to an increase of allowance under the provisions of article 7(1), he were entitled to a disablement pension plus unemployability supplement.

(2) Where, for any period, the conditions for the receipt by a person of an increase of allowance under this article are satisfied, such increase of allowance shall be adjusted by reference to the weekly rate at which an allowance or an increase of benefit in respect of that child or those children is payable for that period under the Social Security Act so as to be payable (if at all) for that period at a weekly rate arrived at by deducting from the weekly rate at which the increase of allowance under this article would otherwise have been payable the said weekly rate of an allowance or increase of benefit payable under that Act.