Explanatory note

These regulations are made for the purpose only of consolidating the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1980 and subsequent amending regulations, all of which are revoked. Paragraph 12 of Part II of Schedule 16 to the Social Security Act 1975 exempts such regulations from reference to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and they have not been so referred.

One major difference between these regulations and those made in 1980 is that the provisions in Part V of the 1980 regulations (Procedure for Determination of Claims and Questions) are now in Part IX of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 and have accordingly been omitted from the present consolidation. In other respects the form and content of the present set of regulations is much as before, dealing, in the same sequence, with the prescription of diseases and presumption as to their origin (Part II and Schedule 1), the date of onset and recrudescence of disease (Part III ), the application to prescribed diseases of certain provisions of the Social Security Act 1975 and regulations made under it ( Part IV and Schedule 2), the special provisions made in respect of pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, occupational deafness and certain other diseases (Part V and Schedule 3), certain transitional provisions (Part VI and Schedules 4 and 5) and the revocation of the regulations mentioned in Schedule 6.