Article 6 Rates of industrial injuries benefit and date on which changes take effect

(1)

The sums specified in Part V (rates of industrial injuries benefit) of schedule 4 (rates of benefits, etc) of the 1992 Act^f1 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 6 April 2026 except those set out in the following entries in the schedule which take effect on 8 April 2026—

(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)

entry 8 (the weekly rate of disablement pension adult dependents),

(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).

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Part V of schedule 4 was relevantly amended by paragraph 15(3) of schedule 1 of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6), section 65(2) and (3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), and S.S.I. 2025/102.