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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1588",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends paragraph (a) and inserts paragraph (e) in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations. Regulation 2(3) provides that benefit in respect of the prescribed disease A2 shall not be paid unless the claimant has been employed in a relevant prescribed occupation over a minimum aggregate period of 5 years.\nRegulations 3, 4 and 5 amend regulations 25, 27 and 36 of the principal Regulations (time for claiming benefit in respect of occupational deafness, or for making further claims in respect of occupational deafness, or for claiming in respect of occupational asthma) by amending the references to “worked” to “worked in employed earner’s employment” and references to “been employed” or “be employed” to “worked or work in employed earner’s employment”.\nRegulation 6(2) substitutes the prescription of prescribed disease A1 (exposure to electro-magnetic radiations or to ionising particles). The diseases are prescribed where the dose of ionising radiation is sufficient to double the risk of their occurrence.\nRegulation 6(3) amends prescribed disease A2 (cataract) by removing the reference to “Heat” before cataract and prescribing that the exposure must be to red-hot or white-hot material.\nRegulation 6(4) amends prescribed disease D12 (chronic bronchitis or emphysema) by specifying formulae for the calculation of forced expiratory volume, which differ depending on the gender of the person being tested and the form of testing used.\nRegulation 7 contains transitional provision. Regulation 7(1) provides that the amendments made by regulations 3 and 4 (relating to occupational deafness) do not apply to claims made before or within 3 months after the date these Regulations come into force and the amendments made by regulations 2(3), 5 and 6 (relating to asthma and prescribed diseases A1, A2 and D12) do not apply where the date of onset of the relevant disease is prior to the commencement date and the claim is made within 3 months of that date.\nRegulation 7(2) provides that the amendments made by regulations 2(3) and 6 (relating to prescribed diseases A1, A2 and D12) do not apply where there has been an assessment for a period up to the date 3 months after the commencement date or where a decision on benefit made before or within 3 months of the commencement date is revised or superseded after that date where there is a continuous assessment of disablement in respect of the disease.\nRegulation 7(3) provides that the amendments made by regulations 2(3), 6(2) and 6(3) (relating to prescribed diseases A1 and A2) do not apply where a person with an assessment of disablement before or within 3 months after the commencement date suffers a further attack within 3 months of the commencement date and recrudescence is determined.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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