Regulation 2 Amendment of the principal regulations relating to prescription of lung cancer

Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal regulations shall be amended by the addition after the disease numbered D9 (Bilateral diffuse pleural thickening), of the disease specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto and of the occupations set against this disease in the second column of that Schedule.

For the definition of “lung cancer” in regulation 1(2) of the principal regulations shall be substituted “ “lung cancer” means the diseases numbered D8 and D10 in Part I of Schedule 1 to these regulations except in Part I of Schedule 1 and in Schedule 4 where it means the disease numbered D10.”.

In Schedule 4 to the principal regulations after the entry relating to the disease numbered D9 (Bilateral diffuse pleural thickening) there shall be inserted—