Regulation 5 Amendment of regulation 20 of the Prescribed Diseases Regulations

In regulation 20 of the Prescribed Diseases Regulations (special conditions for disablement benefit for pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and diffuse mesothelioma) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(4)

On a claim for disablement pension in respect of diffuse mesothelioma—

(a)

section 103(6) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 shall apply as if for the words “after the expiry of the period of 90 days (disregarding Sundays) beginning with the day of the relevant accident”, there were substituted the words, “the day on which he first suffers from a loss of faculty due to diffuse mesothelioma”;

(b)

paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 shall apply as if the words “beginning not earlier than the end of the period of 90 days referred to in section 103(6) above and in paragraph 9(3) of that Schedule and” were omitted.”.