Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 which prescribe diseases for which industrial injuries benefit is payable.

Regulation 2(2) amends regulation 4 to include new prescribed disease C34 (extrinsic allergic alveolitis) in the presumption that a disease is due to the nature of employment.

Regulation 2(3) amends Part 1 of Schedule 1, which sets out the diseases for which industrial injuries disablement benefit is payable, by amending the descriptions of prescribed diseases A1, B6 and D9 and adding new prescribed disease C34, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, as it relates to occupations involving exposure to airborne isocyanates or to another chemical substance that causes extrinsic allergic alveolitis.

Regulation 3 makes a consequential revocation.

These 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.