Social Security Act 1975

91 Adjustments for successive accidents

(1) Where a person suffers two or more successive accidents arising out of and in the course of his employed earner's employment—

(a) he shall not for the same period be entitled (apart from any increase of benefit mentioned in subsection (2) below) to receive industrial injuries benefit, either by way of injury benefit and a disablement pension or pensions, or by way of two or more disablement pensions, at an aggregate weekly rate exceeding the appropriate amount specified in Schedule 4, Part V, paragraph 16; and

(b) regulations may provide for adjusting—

(i) injury benefit or disablement benefit, or the conditions for the receipt of either, in any case where he has received or may be entitled to a disablement gratuity.

(ii) any increase of benefit mentioned in subsection (2) below, or the conditions for its receipt.

(2) The increases of benefit referred to above are those under—

• section 58 (unemployability supplement),

• section 61 (constant attendance),

• section 63 (exceptionally severe disablement),

• section 64 (dependent children), or

• section 66 (adult dependants);

and for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) they include also, in the case of a beneficiary under the age of 18, any increase in the rate of a disablement pension under section 60 (special hardship).