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The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (2017 Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (2017 Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 and shall come into operation on 24th March 2018.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a)paragraph (a) applies only in relation to a person—

(i)first diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma on or after 1st April 2017; or

(ii)where the date of the first diagnosis with diffuse mesothelioma is unknown, if a claim under section 1(1) of the Mesothelioma etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is made by that person on or after 1st April 2017; and

(b)paragraph (b) applies only in relation to the dependant of a person who dies on or after 1st April 2017 and who, immediately before death, had diffuse mesothelioma.

Amendment of the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations

2.  In the Schedule to the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(1)—

(a)for Table 1 substitute the Table set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b)for Table 2 substitute the Table set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Revocation

3.  The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 are revoked(2).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 16th March 2018

(L.S.)

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

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