The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1983

Amendment of article 6 of the principal scheme

4.  For paragraph (1) of article 6 of the principal scheme there is substituted the following paragraph—

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), for any period during which a person is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child or children the weekly rate of the allowance payable to that person shall be increased by an amount equal to the increase (if any) which would be payable to him in respect of that child or those children—

(a)under section 41 of the Social Security Act if, in the case of a person entitled to an allowance in respect of total disablement but not to an increase of allowance under the provisions of article 7(1), he were under pensionable age and entitled to sickness benefit;

(b)under section 64 of the Social Security Act if, in the case of a person entitled to an increase of allowance under the provisions of article 7(1), he were entitled to a disablement pension plus unemployability supplement.