{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2000/regulation-7.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) The amendments made by regulations 3 and 4 shall not apply in relation to a claim made within 3 months after the commencement date and the amendments made by regulations 2(3), 5 and 6 shall 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 after that date.\n(2) The amendments made by regulations 2(3) and 6 shall not apply in the case of a person—\n(a) who had an assessment of disablement in respect of the relevant disease for a period up to the date 3 months after the commencement date; or\n(b) in respect of whom a decision in relation to a relevant disease on a claim for disablement benefit made before or within 3 months after the commencement date is revised or superseded after that date under section 9 or 10 of the Social Security Act 1998 resulting in an assessment;\nduring any period when there is in respect of him a continuous assessment of disablement in respect of that disease, and for this purpose two or more assessments, one of which begins on the day following the end of a preceding assessment, shall be treated as continuous.\n(3) The amendments made by regulations 2(3) and 6(2) and (3) shall not apply in the case of a person—\n(a) who had an assessment of disablement in respect of the relevant disease for a period which ended before or within 3 months after the commencement date;\n(b) who suffers a further attack of that relevant disease before or within 3 months after the commencement date;\n(c) who makes a claim for disablement benefit in respect of that disease after the commencement date; and\n(d) in respect of whom it is decided under regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (recrudescence) that the further attack is a recrudescence of that disease.\n(4) In this regulation—\n“commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force; and\n“relevant disease” means the disease referred to in the amendment, or the regulation of the principal Regulations which is amended by the amendment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 14. Section 10 was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1588/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:35.490014+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}