# The Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) (Amendment) Order 1977, Article 3


The 1973 Order shall be further varied as follows—
(a) In Article 5 of the Schedule thereto—
(i) the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (1)(c) shall be deleted;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (1)(d) there shall be substituted for the words “on or after 6th April 1976” the words “after 5th April 1976 and before 6th April 1977”; and the word “and” shall be inserted at the end of that sub-paragraph;
(iii) there shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (1)(d) the following sub-paragraph—
“(e) whose relevant date fell on or after 6th April 1977 the weekly sum specified in Part 5 of Appendix 4 opposite the amounts specified in column 1 thereof appropriate to the amount of that employee's pre-redundancy earnings.”
(b) In Article 6 of the Schedule thereto—
(i) in the proviso to sub-paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) there shall be substituted for the words “6th April 1973” the words “6th April 1977” and for the figure “£3” the figure “£5.23”;
(ii) paragraph (4) (as substituted by Article 3(d)(iii)(b) of the Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) (Amendment) Order 1976) shall be deleted;
(iii) there shall be substituted for paragraph (5) (as substituted by Article 3(d)(iii)(c) of the Redundant Mineworkers and Concessionary Coal (Payments Schemes) (Amendment) Order 1976) the following paragraph—
“(4) Where a coal industry employee makes an election under Article 5(4) and the date substituted for the relevant date by virtue of that election falls on or after 6th April 1978, the weekly sum referred to in Article 5(1)(e) shall be reduced by an amount equal to any increase in the amount of unemployment benefit for a man over the age of 18 with one adult dependant which may have been made during the period commencing on 6th April 1977 and ending on the 5th April which immediately precedes the date substituted for the relevant date by virtue of the said election.”
(c) In Article 8 of the Schedule thereto there shall be substituted for paragraph (3) the following paragraph—
“(3) The weekly sum payable under paragraph (1) for any week commencing after 6th April 1977 to an employee who is in receipt of a pension under the Staff Superannuation Scheme or the Coal Industry (Ancillaries) Staff Superannuation Scheme shall be reduced or extinguished, as the case may be, by the amount by which the weekly value of such pension exceeds £8.”
(d) There shall be inserted after Part 4 of Appendix 4 the Table set out in the Schedule to this Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/524/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-and-concessionary-coal-payments-schemes-amendment-order-1977/article-3
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