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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-adjudication-regulations-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/861",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-and-adjudication-regulations-1993",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986—\n(i) to allow adjudicating medical practitioners and specially qualified adjudicating medical practitioners to deal with matters in respect of industrial injuries and prescribed diseases which until now have been reserved for either medical boards or special medical boards;\n(ii) to permit a medical practitioner to adjudicate upon a claim where he has prepared a report upon a claimant’s case, if he proposes to dispose of the issue which arises in favour of the claimant;\n(iii) to make changes consequential upon the matters referred to in (i) and (ii);\n(iv) to make changes consequential upon the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I.1993/862) which make provision for a new prescribed disease D11.\nThe Regulations also make a number of consequential changes to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985. They also make some minor drafting changes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/861/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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