# The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975, Note: Explanatory note


These Regulations modify and amplify the general provisions relating to benefits for industrial injuries and diseases of the Social Security Act 1975, and the regulations made thereunder, in their application to mariners. The principal modifications and amplifications are: (a) benefit is payable (subject to the provisions of the Act) in respect of accidents happening and diseases contracted outside Great Britain (regulation 2); (b) in the case of masters, members of crews and pilots, the conditions of entitlement to benefit have been modified in respect for accidents happening while going to or from the ship, while being repatriated, and while acting in emergencies (regulations 3 and 4); (c) the provisions as to disqualification for the receipt of and suspension of payment of benefit while absent from Great Britain have been modified in relation to such mariners (regulation 5); and (d) there are special provisions about giving notice of accidents (regulation 6), and taking evidence abroad (regulation 7). The remaining provisions are incidental or consequential.
In so far as these Regulations are made under the power conferred by section 129(1) of the Act, they only replace provisions of previous regulations with new provisions to the same effect, and therefore, by virtue of section 167(2)(c) of the Act, are made without being laid before Parliament in draft under section 167(1) of the Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/470/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-mariners-benefits-regulations-1975/note
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