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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1994/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese regulations further amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 (“the principal regulations”).\nRegulation 2 inserts definitions of “knock out and shake out grid” and “skid transfer bank” into regulation 1(2) of the principal regulations as a consequence of the change made by regulation 4(6).\nRegulation 3 modifies paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 7 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 by removing entitlement to reduced earnings allowance in relation to a disease prescribed on or after 10th October 1994 or in relation to an extension of an exist prescribed disease on or after that date.\nRegulation 4 adds to the list of occupations set against prescribed disease A10 (occupational deafness) listed in Schedule 1 to the principal regulations and widens the definition of two of the listed occupations prescribed in relation to occupational deafness.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1994/347/note",
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  "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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