{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-scheme-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-scheme-1983/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/136",
  "legislation_title": "The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pneumoconiosis-byssinosis-and-miscellaneous-diseases-benefit-scheme-1983",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where for any period—\n(a) any benefit payable otherwise than under this scheme which is specified as a dependency benefit in regulation 7(2) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (adjustment of dependency benefit under the Social Security Act by reference to other dependency benefits) is payable to a person in respect of his or her spouse or civil partner or other adult dependant or to any other person on behalf of his or her spouse or civil partner; or\n(b) any one or more of the personal benefits specified in regulation 10(1) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (adjustment of dependency benefit under the Social Security Act by reference to personal benefits) is or are payable to his or her spouse or civil partner;\nat a weekly rate or (if more than one) at an aggregate weekly rate—\n(i) which is equal to or exceeds the amount specified in article 5(2), then for that period an increase of an allowance in respect of his or her spouse or civil partner shall not be payable; or\n(ii) of less than the amount specified in article 5(2), then for that period such increase shall be reduced by an amount equal to the weekly rate or the aggregate weekly rate of such benefit or benefits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.1987) by The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1987 (S.I. 1987/400), arts. 1, 4(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 substituted (1.4.1987) by The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1987 (S.I. 1987/400), arts. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 12(4)(c) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/136/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:06:39.873926+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."
}