{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1985/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1985/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis, and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-amendment-scheme-1985",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Scheme amends the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983 (“the principal Scheme”) so as to add to the list of diseases, in respect of which benefit is payable out of the National Insurance Fund under the principal Scheme, a further disease falling within the category of malignant or potentially malignant neoplasms, namely lung carcinoma, when accompanied by asbestosis or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.\nArticle 5 revokes Article 6(1)(a) of the principal Scheme, which relates to child dependency increases and which is now otiose following changes made to section 41 of the Social Security Act 1975 (c.14) by section 13 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c.48).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/491/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:14:45.391603+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."
}