{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-assurance-decimal-currency-regulations-1970/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/931",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Assurance (Decimal Currency) Regulations 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-assurance-decimal-currency-regulations-1970",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where payments payable to an industrial assurance company or collecting society which has adopted the prescribed scheme are increased by virtue of paragraph 3 of the scheme, the company or society shall on being requested so to do by the person by whom the increased payments are payable notify him in writing of the corresponding increase in the benefit payable by virtue of paragraph 8 of the scheme.\n(2) Any person by whom payments so increased are payable may, within six months of first receiving written notification from the company or society of the increase in the benefit, appeal to the Industrial Assurance Commissioner on the ground that the increase in the benefit is not fair in relation to the increased payments payable by him.\n(3) If on such appeal, and after giving the appellant and the company or society an opportunity of being heard, the Industrial Assurance Commissioner is satisfied that the increase in benefit is not fair, he may direct the company or society to make such increase as he may consider appropriate in the benefit to which the appeal relates and in like benefits payable under other like contracts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/931/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:58:11.623834+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}