{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/schedule-7/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/7",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An employed earner shall be entitled to a disablement gratuity, if—\n(a) he made a claim for disablement benefit before 19th November 1986;\n(b) he suffered as the result of the relevant accident from loss of physical or mental faculty such that the extent of the resulting disablement assessed in accordance with Schedule 6 to this Act amounts to not less than 1 per cent.; and\n(c) the extent of the disablement is assessed for the period taken into account as amounting to less than 20 per cent.\n(2) A disablement gratuity shall be—\n(a) of an amount fixed, in accordance with the length of the period and the degree of the disablement, by a prescribed scale, but not in any case exceeding the amount specified in Schedule 4, Part V, paragraph 9; and\n(b) payable, if and in such cases as regulations so provide, by instalments.\n(3) A person shall not be entitled to disablement gratuity until after the expiry of the period of 90 days (disregarding Sundays) beginning with the day of the relevant accident.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/13",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "amendment to earlier affecting provison 1993 c. 49, s. 42(6)",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/13",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/7/schedule/7/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:23.179265+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."
}