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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pneumoconiosis-etc-workers-compensation-payment-of-claims-amendment-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111534045",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pneumoconiosis-etc-workers-compensation-payment-of-claims-amendment-regulations-2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nUnder the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979 (c.41) (“the Act”) lump sum payments may be made to certain persons disabled by a disease to which the Act applies, or to dependants of persons who were so disabled before they died. The diseases to which the Act applies are pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, primary carcinoma of the lung (where accompanied by asbestosis or diffuse pleural thickening) and diffuse pleural thickening.\nThese Regulations amend the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/668) (“the 1988 Regulations”). The amendments made by regulation 2(7), (8), (11) and (12) have the effect of increasing the amounts payable under the 1988 Regulations. The increase in each case is 2.2 per cent. rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.\nHowever the new Schedule to the 1988 Regulations, which is substituted by regulation 2(12), omits tables and amounts which, as a result of repeals made by section 64 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (injuries arising before 5 July 1948), are no longer required. The remainder of regulation 2 makes further consequential amendments to the 1988 Regulations to remove provisions which link to those omitted tables and amounts.\nBy virtue of regulation 1(2), the amendments made by these Regulations apply only in relation to any case in which a person first fulfils the conditions of entitlement to a payment under the Act on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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