{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1288",
  "legislation_title": "The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Claims for payments",
  "text": "–\n(1) Subject to paragraph (2), it shall be a condition of the making of payments under this Scheme to any coal industry employee that a claim for weekly payments under the 1983 Scheme, the 1984 Scheme or the 1986 Scheme to that coal industry employee was submitted to the Secretary of State not later than 26 weeks after the relevant date.\n(2) In any case in which the Secretary of State is satisfied that there was reasonable ground for failing to make a claim within such period as aforesaid he may accept a claim under this Scheme on application being made to him in that behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1288/schedule/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:53.085232+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."
}