The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2269

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made

15th November 1990

Laid before Parliament

22nd November 1990

Coming into force

13th December 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 76 and 77 of, and Schedule 20 to the Social Security Act 1975(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after reference 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) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 13th December 1990.

Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985

2.—(1) The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) after the definition “medical board” there shall be inserted the following definition:

• ““metal” for the purposes of the disease number A10 in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, does not include stone, concrete, aggregate or similar substances for use in road or railway construction;”.

(3) In regulation 15B(3) (rounding) for the words “Where a reassessment” there shall be substituted the words “Where an assessment or a reassessment”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

15thNovember 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985. They provide where the degree of disablement due to industrial deafness is assessed at less than 20 per cent. that percentage shall be disregarded for the purposes of assessing disablement. These Regulations also ensure that “metal” for the purposes of sensorineural hearing loss does not include stone, concrete, aggregate or similar substances for use in road or railway construction.

(1)

1975 c. 14. Schedule 20 is cited for the meaning it ascribes to “Prescribe” and “Regulations”. Sub-section (4A) was inserted into section 76 by paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) (“the 1990 Act”). Section 77(2) was amended by Schedule 5 to the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (c. 24)and paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 6 to the 1990 Act.

(2)

See section 141(2) of the Social Security Act 1975.

(3)

S.I. 1985/967, to which the relevant amendments are S.I. 1986/1561, 1987/2112 and 1989/1207.