# The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These regulations which come into effect on 1st April 1987 provide for a further industrial disease of lung cancer to be prescribed under Chapter V of Part II of the Social Security Act 1975.
Regulation 2(2) amends the definition of lung cancer in regulation 1(2) of the principal regulations. Benefit is not payable for any period before 1st April 1987 (regulations 2(3) and 3). The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 and 1986 are amended by regulations 4 and 5 so as to provide for diagnosis of the newly prescribed disease to be for special medical boards and for medical reports to be obtained from specially qualified medical practitioners.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/335/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-1987/note
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