The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996

Eligibility for payments

2.  –

(1) Any person who was on the relevant date employed at a coal mine or a prescribed place within Part 1 of Appendix 1 being either–

(a) a person so employed by the Corporation, by one of their subsidiaries, or by a small mine licensee–

(i) in a grade which renders him eligible for membership of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme; or

(ii) in a grade which is specified in Appendix 2; or

(b) a person so employed as a workmen’s employee,

shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be eligible for payments under this Scheme; such a person is hereinafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.

(2) Any person who was on the relevant date employed by a coking plant operator at a coking plant or prescribed place within Part 2 of Appendix 1, who–

(i) was a daily paid industrial worker employed in a capacity described in the first Schedule to an agreement on the national grading structure for the coke and by-product industry made on 5th April 1956 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or

(ii) was weekly paid industrial staff who was, or would if employed in the same capacity by a subsidiary of the Corporation being a coke plant operator be, in a grade within the first Schedule to an agreement dated 1 st September 1965 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or

(iii) was employed in a grade specified in numbers 3 to 10 inclusive of Appendix 2 or in a capacity equivalent thereto,

shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be eligible for payments under this Scheme and is also hereinafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.