{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/regulation-15B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/regulation-15B.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/15B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15B",
  "heading": "Rounding",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, where the assessment of disablement is a percentage between 20 and 100 which is not a multiple of 10, it shall be treated—\n(a) if it is a multiple of 5, as being the next higher percentage which is a multiple of 10; and\n(b) if it is not a multiple of 5 as being the nearest percentage which is a multiple of 10,\nand where it is 14 per cent. or more but less than 20 per cent. it shall be treated as 20 per cent.\n(2) In a case to which regulation 15A (aggregation of percentages of disablement) applies, paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to the aggregate percentage and not in relation to any percentage forming part of the aggregate.\n(3) Where an assessment or a reassessment states the degree of disablement due to occupational deafness as less than 20 per cent. that percentage shall be disregarded for the purposes of regulation 15A and this regulation.",
  "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. 15B(3) substituted (13.12.1990) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/2269), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/967/regulation/15B",
    "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."
}