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1.—(1) A claim for a payment under this Act may be made by—
(a)a person with diffuse mesothelioma, or
(b)a dependant of a person who, immediately before death, had diffuse mesothelioma.
(2) The Department must make the payment to the claimant if satisfied that the conditions of entitlement in section 2 are fulfilled.
(3) Regulations—
(a)may prescribe the amount of any payment;
(b)may prescribe different amounts for different cases or classes of case or for different circumstances.
(4) Where, because of Article 5(1)(b) or (d) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (NI 9) (in this Act referred to as “the 1979 Order”) (children, siblings etc.), a payment may be claimed by two or more persons, the payment is to be made to one of them or divided between some or all of them as the Department thinks fit.
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