Paragraph 2 I1
England, Wales and Scotland
There shall be included in the questions to be determined under the Administration Act any question—
whether a person is suffering or has suffered from a prescribed disease or injury;
whether a prescribed disease or injury, suffered by a person who has previously been awarded benefit under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946f1, under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965f2, under the Social Security Act 1975f3 or under the Acts or who is or has been in receipt of compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Acts 1925 to 1945 or under any contracting out scheme duly certified thereunder in respect of the same disease or injury, has been contracted or received afresh (if and in so far as regulations made under sections 108, 109 or 110 of the Contributions and Benefits Act or section 62(1) of the Administration Act necessitate the determination of that question); which shall, where the question arises in connection with a claim for or award of sickness benefit made by virtue of section 102 of the Contributions and Benefits Act or disablement benefit, be determined as provided by regulations, by an adjudication officer in the light of medical advice or by a medical board or a medical appeal tribunal, so however that no appeal shall lie under the provisions of section 22 or 23 of the Administration Act from a decision of an adjudication officer on any such question.
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. 3 para. 2 in force at 10.8.1995, see reg. 1(1)
Footnotes
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