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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/schedule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/967",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "PRESCRIBED DISEASES AND RELEVANT DATES OF THE PURPOSES OF REGULATION 43",
  "text": "Description of disease or injury\nRelevant date\nA3. Dysbarism, including decompression sickness, barotrauma and osteonecrosis.\nExcept in the case of a person suffering from decompression sickness employed in any occupation involving subjection to compressed or rarefied air, 3rd October 1983.\nA11. Episodic blanching, occurring throughout the year, affecting the middle or proximal phalanges or in the case of a thumb the proximal phalanx, of—\n(a) in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one hand, any 3 of those fingers, or\n(b) in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those fingers, or\n(c) in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of those fingers or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger (vibration white finger).\n1st April 1985.\nB1. Anthrax.\nIn the case of a person employed in an occupation involving the loading and unloading or transport of animal products or residues, 3rd October 1983\nB3. Infection by leptospira.\n( a) In the case of a person employed in an occupation in places which are or are liable to be infested by small mammals other than rats, field mice or voles, 3rd October 1983;\n( b) in the case of a person employed in an occupation in any other place mentioned in the second column of paragraph B3 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, 7th January 1980.\nB5. Tuberculosis.\nIn the case of a person employed in an occupation involving contact with a source of tuberculous infection, not being an employment set out in the second column of paragraph 38 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the old regulations, 3rd October 1983.\nB6. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (including farmer's lung).\nIn the case of a person suffering from extrinsic allergic alveolitis, not being farmer's lung, employed in any occupation set out in the second column of paragraph B6 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, or in the case of a person suffering from farmer's lung, employed in any occupation involving exposure to moulds or fungal spores or heterologous proteins by reason of employment in cultivation of edible fungi or maltworking, or loading or unloading or handling in storage edible fungi or caring for or handling birds, 3rd October 1983.\nB7. Infection by organisms of the genus brucella.\nIn the case of a person suffering from infection by organisms of the genus brucella, not being infection by Brucella abortus, or employed in an occupation set out in the second column of paragraph B7 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, not being an occupation set out in the second column of paragraph 46 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the old regulations, 3rd October 1983.\nB8. Viral hepatitis.\nIn the case of a person employed in any occupation involving contact with human blood or human blood products, or contact with a source of viral hepatitis, 3rd December 1984.\nB9. Infection by Streptococcus suis.\n3rd October 1983.\nB10. (a) Avian chlamydiosis\n9th August 1989\nB10. (b) Ovine chlamydiosis\n9th August 1989\nB11. Q fever\n9th August 1989\nC3. Poisoning by phosphorus or an inorganic compound of phosphorus or poisoning due to the anti-cholinesterase or pseudo anti-cholinesterase action of organic phosphorus compounds.\nIn the case of a person suffering from poisoning by an inorganic compound of phosphorus or poisoning due to the pseudo anti-cholinesterase action of organic phosphorus compounds, 3rd October 1983.\nC18. Poisoning by cadmium.\nIn the case of a person employed in an occupation involving exposure to cadmium dust, 3rd October 1983.\nC23. Primary neoplasm (including papilloma, carcinoma-in-situ and invasive carcinoma) of the epithelial lining of the urinary tract (renal pelvis, ureter, bladder and urethra).\nIn the case of a person employed in an occupation involving work in a building in which methylene-bis-orthochloroaniline is produced for commercial purposes, 3rd October 1983.\nC24. (a) Angiosarcoma of the liver;\n(b) osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers;\n(c) non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis.\n(a) In the case of a person suffering from angiosarcoma of the liver or osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers, 21st March 1977;\n(b) in the case of a person suffering from non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, 3rd October 1983.\nC25. Occupational vitiligo.\n15th December 1980\nC26 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Carbon Tetrachloride.\n4th January 1988\nC27 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Trichloromethane (Chloroform).\n4th January 1988\nC28. Central nervous system dysfunction and associated gastro-intestinal disorders due to exposure to Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride).\n4th January 1988\nC29 Peripheral neuropathy due to exposure to n-hexane or methyl n-butyl ketone.\n4th January 1988\nD3. Diffuse mesothelioma.\nIn the case of a person suffering from primary neoplasm of the pericardium, 3rd October 1983.\nD6. Carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma).\nIn the case of a person employed in an occupation involving attendance for work in or about a building where wooden goods (other than wooden furniture) are manufactured or where wooden goods are repaired, 3rd October 1983.\nD7. Occupational asthma.\n(a) In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—\n(i) isocyanates;\n(ii) platinum salts;\n(iii) fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture, transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride or triethylenetetramine;\n(iv) fumes arising from the use of rosin as a soldering flux;\n(v) proteolytic enzymes;\n(vi) animals or insects used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;\n(vii) dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation, harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal or flour made therefrom,\n29th March 1982;\n(b) In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—\n(i)\nanimals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;\n(ii) antibiotics;\n(iii) cimetidine;\n(iv) wood dust;\n(v) ispaghula;\n(vi) castor bean dust;\n(vii) ipecacuanha;\n(viii) azodicarbonamide,\n1st September 1986.\nD8. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of one or both of the following:—\n(a) asbestosis;\n(b) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.\n1st April 1985.\nD9. Bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.\n1st April 1985.\nD10. lung cancer\n1st April 1987",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4, B10 - B11 inserted (9.8.1989) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1207), regs. 1, 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4, C26 - C29 inserted (4.1.1987) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/2112), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4, D7 substituted (1.9.1986) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1374), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4, D10 added (1.4.1987) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/335), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    }
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