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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-43",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1995/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Construction of Section A",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 34 applies for the construction of this Section as it applies for the construction of Section E of Part III.\n(2) 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.\n(3) In the following provisions of this Section any question arising in connection with a claim for, or award of, disablement benefit—\n(a) whether any person is suffering or has suffered from a prescribed disease, is referred to as a diagnosis question;\n(b) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1989 No. 319 and S.R. 1993 Nos. 148 and 350"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/24",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) and Child Support (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/293/regulation/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:40:24.950980+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."
}