{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-adjudication-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1986/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1374",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-adjudication-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1986",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Under the industrial injuries provisions of the Social Security Act 1975, occupational asthma is prescribed as an industrial disease where a person is employed in an occupation involving exposure to any one of a number of sensitising agents. Regulation 2 makes additions to the list of sensitising agents.\nRegulation 3 provides in relation to occupational deafness that where on re-assessment of disablement the sensorineural hearing loss is not 50 db or more in each ear disablement shall be re-assessed at less than 20 per cent.\nRegulation 4 removes restrictions imposed by regulation 51(3) of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 on the right to appeal to a medical appeal tribunal from the decision of a special medical board on a diagnosis question given on a claim for disablement benefit in respect of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1374/note",
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  "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."
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