The Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) Order 1978 No. 415

THE SCHEDULE THE REDUNDANT MINEWORKERS AND CONCESSIONARY COAL PAYMENTS SCHEMES

Part 1 THE REDUNDANT MINEWORKERS PAYMENTS SCHEME

Additional weekly benefits payable

8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the Secretary of State may pay to any coal industry employee who has been eligible to receive weekly payments under this Scheme or any of the former Schemes, after he shall have 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:

Provided that no such sum shall be payable in respect of any week 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) The weekly sum payable under paragraph (1) to an employee who is in receipt of a pension under the 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 £8.