Additional weekly benefits payable
8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) the Secretary of State may pay to any coal industry employee who has been eligible to receive weekly payments under this Scheme (otherwise than under this Article) or under either of the former Schemes in respect of any week commencing after he ceased to be so eligible a weekly sum equal to the sum that would be payable to him under Article 6(2) were he eligible for payment under that paragraph.
(a)before this Order comes into operation; or
(b)in which that employee fails to satisfy the conditions specified in Article 7(2) and is not, by virtue of Article 7(5), considered by the Secretary of State to have satisfied those conditions.
(2) In respect of any week commencing after 27th April 1973 but before the expiry of twenty-eight days from the date on which this Order comes into operation for which a coal industry employee would have been eligible to receive a payment under paragraph (1) had this Order come into operation on 27th April 1973 the Secretary of State may pay that employee the sum of £2.
(3) The weekly sum payable under paragraph (1) to an employee who is in receipt of a pension under the Staff Superannuation Scheme or the Coal Industry (Ancillaries) Staff Superannuation Scheme shall be reduced or extinguished, as the case may be, by the amount by which the weekly value of such pension exceeds £5.