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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-injuries-benefit-employment-training-schemes-and-courses-regulations-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2540",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Injuries Benefit (Employment Training Schemes and Courses) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-injuries-benefit-employment-training-schemes-and-courses-regulations-2013",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 66(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) inserts section 95A of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (“the Contributions and Benefits Act”) (c.4).\nSection 95A(1) provides that references to “employed earner’s employment” in the industrial injuries and diseases provisions (defined in section 95(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act) include participation in employment training schemes and courses of a description prescribed in regulations. Regulation 2 of these Regulations prescribes these employment training schemes and courses.\nSection 95A(2) provides that references to an “employer”, in relation to participation in such schemes and courses, are references to persons prescribed in regulations. Regulation 3 of these Regulations provides that the employer is any person providing an employment training scheme or course prescribed by regulation 2.\nSection 66(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 enables regulations to provide for the payment of industrial injuries benefit (defined in section 122(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act) to persons to whom payments were previously payable under section 11(3) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (c.50), and for claims to such payments to be treated as claims for industrial injuries benefit. Regulations 4 and 5 of these Regulations make provision to that effect. Section 66 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 comes into force for all purposes on 31st October 2013: see the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2534 (C.102).\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of private sector or civil society organisations.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2540/note",
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  "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."
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