{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/regulation-15A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/regulation-15A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/967",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985",
  "path": "regulation/15A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15A",
  "heading": "Aggregation of Percentages of Disablement",
  "text": "(1) After the extent of an employed earner's disablement resulting from the relevant disease has been determined, the Secretary of State shall add to the percentage of that disablement the assessed percentage of any present disablement of his resulting from\n(a) any accident after 4th July 1948 arising out of and in the course of his employment, being employed earner's employment, or\n(b) any other relevant disease due to the nature of that employment and developed after 4th July 1948,\nand in respect of which a disablement gratuity was not paid to him under the Act after a final assessment of disablement.\n(2) In determining the extent of an employed earner's disablement for the purposes of section 57 of the Act there shall be added to the percentage of disablement resulting from any relevant accident the assessed percentage of any present disablement of his resulting from any disease or injury prescribed for the purposes of Chapter V of Part II of the Act, which was both due to the nature of the employment and developed after 4th July 1948, and in respect of which a disablement gratuity was not paid to him under the Act after a final assessment of his disablement.\n(3) This regulation is subject to the provisions of regulation 15B(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 15A-15B inserted (1.10.1986) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Diseases) Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1561), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15A substituted (4.7.1999) by The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 8, and Savings and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1958), art. 4, Sch. 8 para. 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/967/regulation/15A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:08:38.846269+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."
}