{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1396",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985",
  "text": "In Part I of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed) after the entry relating to prescribed disease A13 (osteoarthritis of the hip) add—\n“\nA14\nOsteoarthritis of the knee.\nWork underground in a coal mine for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, at least 10 years in any one or more of the following occupations:\n(a)\nbefore 1st January 1986 as a coal miner; or\n(b)\non or after 1st January 1986 as a—\n(i)\nface worker working on a non-mechanised coal face;\n(ii)\ndevelopment worker;\n(iii)\nface-salvage worker;\n(iv)\nconveyor belt cleaner; or\n(v)\nconveyor belt attendant.\n“A non-mechanised coal face” means a coal face without either powered roof supports or a power loader machine which simultaneously cuts and loads the coal or without both.\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/967; relevant amending instruments are S.I.1989/1207, 1994/2343, 1996/425, 2000/1588, 2003/2190, 2005/324, 2007/811 and 1753."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1396/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:11:11.070211+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."
}