1990 No. 2269
SOCIAL SECURITY

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

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 19751, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after reference to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement1.

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 19852.

(1)

The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 19853 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
(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.