9.—(1) Regulations may make provision for compensation payments to be disregarded for the purposes of Articles 8 and 10 in prescribed cases where the amount of the compensation payment, or the aggregate amount of two or more connected compensation payments, does not exceed the prescribed sum.
(2) A compensation payment disregarded by virtue of this paragraph is referred to in paragraph 1 as a “small payment”.
(3) For the purposes of this paragraph—
(a)two or more compensation payments are “connected” if each is made to or in respect of the same injured person and in respect of the same accident, injury or disease, and
(b)any reference to a compensation payment is a reference to a payment which would be such a payment apart from paragraph 1.