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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3E+W+S Industrial Injuries and Diseases

Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 (c. 41)E+W+S

17(1)Section 2 of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 (conditions of entitlement to lump sum payments) shall be amended as follows.E+W+S

(2)At the end of subsection (1)(a) there shall be added the words “or, subject to subsection (3A) below, would be payable to him in respect of it but for his disablement amounting to less than the appropriate percentage”.

(3)At the end of subsection (2)(b) there shall be added the words or, subject to subsection (3A) below, would have been so payable to him—

(i)but for his disablement amounting to less than the appropriate percentage; or

(ii)but for his not having claimed the benefit; or

(iii)but for his having died before he had suffered from the disease for the appropriate period.

(4)In subsection (3) the following definitions shall be inserted before the definition of “death benefit”—

(5)The following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection—

(3A)No amount is payable under this Act in respect of disablement amounting to less than 1 per cent..

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of Sch. 3 para. 17 and Sch. 5 para. 1 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.