Article 7 Rates of industrial injuries benefit and date on which changes take effect

(1)

The sums specified in Part V of schedule 4^f1 (rates of industrial injuries benefit) of the 1992 Act are amended so that Part V has effect as set out in the schedule of this Order.

(2)

The increases made by paragraph (1) take effect on 10 April 2023 except those set out in the following entries in the schedule—

(a)

entry 1 (the weekly rates of disablement pension),

(b)

entry 4 (the maximum of aggregate of weekly benefit payable for successive accidents under section 107(1) of the 1992 Act),

(c)

entries 7, 8 and 12 (increases in disablement pension and industrial death benefit in respect of dependants),

(d)

entry 9 (the maximum disablement gratuity under paragraph 9(2) of schedule 7 of the 1992 Act),

(e)

entries 10 and 11 (the weekly rates of industrial death benefit by way of widow’s and widower’s pension),

which take effect on 12 April 2023.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Part V of schedule 4 is relevantly amended by section 65(2) and (3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), paragraph 15(3) of schedule 1 of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6) and S.S.I. 2022/128.