Regulation 4 Transitional provision

(1)

Regulation 3 shall not apply to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made before the commencement date.

(2)

A provisional assessment of the extent of a claimant’s disablement due to occupational deafness, which is in force immediately before the commencement date, shall, from the commencement date, have effect for the remainder of the claimant’s life.

(3)

For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)

“commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;

(b)

the date on which a claim is made is the date on which the claim is made or treated as made in accordance with the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I.1987/1968; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1989/1689, 1990/725 and 2208, 1991/2741, 1997/793, 1999/2572.