Regulation 43 Construction of Section AI1
England, Wales and Scotland
Regulation 34 applies for the construction of this Section as it applies for the construction of Section E of Part III.
Except as provided in this Section any reference in Part II of the Administration Act or in these Regulations to the relevant accident shall be construed as a reference to the relevant disease and any reference to the date of the relevant accident shall be construed as a reference to the date of onset of the relevant disease.
In the following provisions of this Section any question arising in connection with a claim for or award of disablement benefit—
whether any person is suffering or has suffered from a prescribed disease, is referred to as a diagnosis question;
whether a prescribed disease has, in fact, been contracted afresh in a case where that question arises under the provisions of regulation 7 or 8 of the Prescribed Diseases Regulations is referred to as a recrudescence question.
Annotations
Commencement
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Reg. 43 in force at 10.8.1995, see reg. 1(1)