Paragraph 20
If a person dies at a time when—
he is entitled to an increase under section 104 above of a disablement pension and the amount of the increase is not less than the amount which at that time is specified in Schedule 4, Part V, paragraph 2(a); or
he would have been so entitled but for having received medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution,
he is to be regarded for the purposes of entitlement to industrial death benefit as having died as a result of the injury in respect of which the disablement pension was payable.
The reference in sub-paragraph (1) above to an increase under section 104 above includes only a payment by way of increase of a disablement pension F1...
Sub-paragraph (1) above does not affect death benefit where the death occurred before 26th July 1971.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Sch. 7 para. 20(2) repealed (31.10.2016) by The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006), art. 2(2), Sch. 12 Pt. 6; S.R. 2016/234, art. 3(3)