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Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations

2.  In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986(1) (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed)—

(a)in the second column of the entry relating to prescribed disease B15(2) for “Employment as a healthcare worker having contact” substitute “Contact”;

(b)for the second column of the entry relating to prescribed disease D6 substitute—

(a)Attendance for work at a workplace where wooden goods or products made wholly or partially of wood are manufactured or repaired; or

(b)attendance for work in a building used for the manufacture of footwear or components of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibre board; or

(c)attendance for work at a place used wholly or mainly for the repair of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibre board; or

(d)exposure to wood dust in the course of the machine processing of wood..

(1)

S.R. 1986 No. 179; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2005 No. 37

(2)

Prescribed disease B15 was added by regulation 2(4)(e) S.R. 2005 No. 37