The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1986

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989

Made

31st October 1989

Laid before Parliament

31st October 1989

Coming into force

31st October 1989

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 84(1) and 89(1) of the Social Security Act 1986(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, it having appeared to him that by reason of urgency of the matter it is inexpedient to refer proposals in respect of these Regulations to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 31st October 1989.

Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Regulations 1989

2.  Regulation 2 of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Regulations 1989(3) (which provides in paragraph (2) that certain provisions relating to delayed claims are to cease to have effect) shall be amended by the deletion of paragraph (2) from that regulation.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

31st October 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 31st October 1989, amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Regulations 1989 by deleting from regulation 2 of those Regulations paragraph (2) which provides that regulation 13 of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1561) is to cease to have effect on 1st November 1989. Regulation 13 enables late claims for industrial injuries and diseases to be determined in certain circumstances as though they had been made on 30th September 1986.

(1)

1986 c. 50; section 84(1) is cited because of the meaning it ascribes to the word “regulations”.

(2)

See section 141 of the Social Security Act 1975 (c. 14) and section 61(1)(a) and (10) of the Social Security Act 1986; a definition of “regulations” was added to section 61(10) by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 12(4).

(3)

S.I. 1989/1824.