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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/100",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 which prescribe diseases for which industrial injuries benefit is payable.\nRegulation 2 adds the disease osteoarthritis of the knee, as it relates to carpet fitters and carpet and floor layers, to prescribed disease A14 (osteoarthritis of the knee) and makes amendments to the terms of prescription for prescribed diseases A4 (task-specific focal dystonia) and C3 (poisoning by phosphorous, organic and inorganic phosphorous compounds) in Part I of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 5A to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2A) of that Act for prior reference to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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