PART II

ALLOWANCES

Basic allowances under scheme
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1
Subject to the following provisions of this scheme, a person who is or since the commencement of the 1951 Act has been entitled to weekly payments by way of workmen's compensation in consequence of an accident happening before 1st January 1924, shall be entitled to a basic allowance payable out of money provided by Parliament during any period of total or partial incapacity for work resulting from the relevant injury or disease so long as he is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
2
In this article the expression “a period of total incapacity for work resulting from the relevant injury or disease” includes a period during which a person is treated as subject to such an incapacity under the provisions of article 3.
3
The weekly rate of a basic allowance—
a
in the case of a basic allowance payable to a person in respect of a period of total incapacity for work resulting from the relevant injury or disease shall be £2.00 less the amount of his workmen's compensation; and
b
in the case of a basic allowance payable to a person in respect of a period of partial incapacity for work resulting from the relevant injury or disease shall be the difference between two-thirds of the amount representing his weekly loss of earnings (ascertained in accordance with article 7) due to the relevant injury or disease and the amount of his workmen's compensation, so however that the aggregate of the said weekly rate and the amount of his workmen's compensation shall in no such case exceed £2.00.
Words in art. 2(1) substituted (9.1.1991) by The Workmens Compensation (Supplementation) (Amendment) and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1990 (S.I. 1990/2538), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)