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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/232",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make amendments to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/967) (“the Principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 4(2) of the Principal Regulations to include new prescribed disease C34 (extrinsic allergic alveolitis).\nRegulation 3 makes amendments to Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations. It amends the prescriptions for prescribed diseases A1 (leukaemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukaemia) or primary cancer of the bone, bladder, breast, colon, liver, lung, ovary, stomach, testis or thyroid), B6 (extrinsic allergic alveolitis) and D9 (unilateral or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening). It also inserts new prescribed disease C34.\nA full impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/232/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:27.967981+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."
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