Amendment of the principal Regulations2

1

The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows.

2

For regulation 29 (period covered by assessment of disablement) there shall be substituted—

29

Paragraph 6(1) and (2) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 shall be modified so that in respect of occupational deafness, the period to be taken into account by an assessment of the extent of a claimant’s disablement shall be the remainder of the claimant’s life.

3

Regulations 30 (supersession of decision), 31 (leave of appeal tribunal), 32 (no appeal against disablement decision) and 33 (reassessment of disablement) shall be revoked.