{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/270",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) Regulations 2 and 5 shall not apply—\n(a) to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made before the commencement date;\n(b) to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date; or\n(c) where a person suffers from an attack of a disease and under regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (recrudescence) the attack is a recrudescence of a disease for which a claim was made before the commencement date (or within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date).\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;\n(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; and\n(c) a period of assessment which begins on the day following the end of a preceding period of assessment, shall be treated as a continuation of the preceding period of assessment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1968; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/1686, 1990/725 and 2208, 1991/2741, 1997/793, 1999/2572."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/270/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:27.581915+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."
}