# The Redundant Mineworkers (Payments Schemes) (Amendment and Consolidation) Order 1996, Paragraph 2: Eligibility for payments


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(1) Any person who was on the relevant date employed at a coal mine or a prescribed place within Part 1 of Appendix 1 being either–
(a) a person so employed by the Corporation, by one of their subsidiaries, or by a small mine licensee–
(i) in a grade which renders him eligible for membership of the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme; or
(ii) in a grade which is specified in Appendix 2; or
(b) a person so employed as a workmen’s employee,
shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be eligible for payments under this Scheme; such a person is hereinafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.
(2) Any person who was on the relevant date employed by a coking plant operator at a coking plant or prescribed place within Part 2 of Appendix 1, who–
(i) was a daily paid industrial worker employed in a capacity described in the first Schedule to an agreement on the national grading structure for the coke and by-product industry made on 5th April 1956 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or
(ii) was weekly paid industrial staff who was, or would if employed in the same capacity by a subsidiary of the Corporation being a coke plant operator be, in a grade within the first Schedule to an agreement dated 1 st September 1965 between the Corporation and National Union of Mineworkers; or
(iii) was employed in a grade specified in numbers 3 to 10 inclusive of Appendix 2 or in a capacity equivalent thereto,
shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be eligible for payments under this Scheme and is also hereinafter referred to as a “coal industry employee”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1288/schedule/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-2
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