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The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
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Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986
2.—(1) The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 18 (special conditions for disablement benefit for pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and diffuse mesothelioma) for “, byssinosis or diffuse mesothelioma”, in the heading and in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted “or byssinosis”.
(3) After regulation 18 there shall be inserted the following regulation –
“Diffuse mesothelioma – prescribed loss of faculty
18A.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the Contributions and Benefits Act (which provides for the assessment of the extent of disablement for the purposes of industrial injuries disablement benefit), the loss of faculty set out in paragraph (2) is prescribed under sub-paragraph (d) of that paragraph 1 (loss of faculty from which the resulting disabilities are to be taken as amounting to 100 per cent. disablement).
(2) The loss of faculty referred to in paragraph (1) is impaired function of the pleura, pericardium or peritoneum caused by diffuse mesothelioma.”.
(1)
S.R. 1986 No. 179; relevant amending rules are S.R. 1986 No. 340, S.R. 1997 No. 158 and S.R. 1999 No. 310 (C. 23)
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