Regulation 6 Date of onset

F1... any date of onset determined for the purposes of that claim shall not preclude fresh consideration of the question whether the same person is suffering from the same disease on any subsequent claim for or award of benefit; and

if, on the consideration of a claim, F2the degree of disablement is assessed at less than one per cent, any date of onset determined for the purposes of that claim shall be disregarded for the purposes of any subsequent claim.

a claim for sickness benefit made by virtue of section 50A of the Act^f1 by a person to whom regulation 8(1) applies (except in respect of pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, occupational deafness, occupational asthma, F3primary carcinoma of the lungF4, bilateral diffuse pleural thickening or F5chronic obstructive pulmonary disease the date of onset shall be the first day on which the claimant was incapable of work as the result of the disease on or after 5th July 1948;

a claim for disablement benefit (except in respect of occupational deafness), the date of onset shall be the day on which the claimant first suffered from the relevant loss of faculty on or after 5th July 1948; and the date of onset so determined shall be the date of onset for the purposes of a claim for sickness benefit made by virtue of section 50A of the Act in respect of pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, diffuse mesothelioma, occupational asthma, primary carcinoma of the lungF6, bilateral diffuse pleural thickening or F7chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ;

a claim for disablement benefit in respect of occupational deafness, the date of onset shall be the day on which the claimant first suffered from the relevant loss of faculty on or after 3rd February 1975; or, if later—

a claim for death benefit, the date of onset shall be the date of death.