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The Industrial Injuries Benefit (Injuries arising before 5th July 1948) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

S.I. 2012/2812 · Made 8 November 2012

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This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2012/2743 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Social Security

Made 8th November 2012

Laid before Parliament 9th November 2012

Coming into force 4th December 2012

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 64(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2012 c.5.

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of the principal Regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Industrial Injuries Benefit (Injuries arising before 5th July 1948) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 4th December 2012.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Industrial Injuries Benefit (Injuries arising before 5th July 1948) Regulations 2012f1.

2Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1)

The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1(1), for “5 July” substitute “5th July”.

(3)

In the Schedule—

(a)

in the entry for increase of benefit or disablement pension for a child dependant, in column (1), for “paragraph 7(2)(ii)” substitute “paragraph 7(2)(c)(ii)”; and

(b)

in the entry for increase of benefit or disablement pension for an adult dependant—

(i)

in column (1), for “paragraph 7(2)(ii)” substitute “paragraph 7(2)(c)(ii)”, and

(ii)

in column (2), for “paragraph 1(a)” substitute “paragraph 8”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Freud

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department for Work and Pensions

8th November 2012

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Industrial Injuries Benefit (Injuries arising before 5th July 1948) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2743) (“the principal Regulations”) make provision for the payment of industrial injuries benefit to persons to whom compensation or benefits were previously payable under other schemes in relation to injuries arising before 5th July 1948. This instrument corrects four minor errors in the principal Regulations. The principal Regulations come into force on 5th December 2012.

A full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of private sector and civil society organisations.