{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/redundant-mineworkers-payments-schemes-amendment-and-consolidation-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Limitation and adjustment of benefits",
  "text": "–\n(1) No payments shall be made under this Scheme in respect of any week in which a coal industry employee is in coal industry employment.\n(2) In respect of any week during which a coal industry employee is in self-employment or in employment other than coal industry employment, the weekly payment under Article 7 to such a coal industry employee under this Scheme shall not exceed £20.00 and, for the purposes of this paragraph, employment or self-employment in any week for less than 16 hours shall not be regarded as employment or self-employment as the case may be.\n(3) No benefit under Article 5 shall be paid to any coal industry employee in respect of any day on which he is:\n(a) entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance or during any period in which he would be entitled to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance but for section 4(6) or (8) of the Jobseekers Act (amount payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance);\n(b) employed or self-employed unless he earns &2 or less (before any deductions) on that day.\n(4) Any benefit under Article 5 shall be reduced or extinguished as the case may be by the amount of any occupational or personal pension in excess of &35 per week received by the coal industry employee.\n(5) Any benefit under Article 6 shall be reduced or extinguished as the case may be by the amount of any pension under the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme or the Staff Superannuation Scheme in excess of £35 per week received by the coal industry employee.\n(6) Benefits payable under Article 5 and Article 6 shall be adjusted by reference to any benefits payable to a coal industry employee under the 1992 Act, in accordance with the overlapping benefits regulations, as if the said Article 5 and Article 6 payments were personal benefits or dependency benefits, as appropriate, payable under Parts II, III and IV of the 1992 Act.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}