{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-prescribed-diseases-regulations-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-6.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": "schedule/5/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "There shall be no entitlement, in the following cases, to benefit for any day which is earlier than the date specified:—\n(a) in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from\n(i) viral hepatitis\n2nd February 1976\n(ii) angiosarcoma of the liver\n21st March 1977\n(iii) osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers\n21st March 1977\n(iv) carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma)\n8th August 1979\n(v) occupational vitiligo\n15th December 1980\n“(vi) occupational asthma arising otherwise than as described at (vii) below\n29th March 1982;\n(vii) Occupational asthma which is due to exposure to antibiotics, cimetidine, wood dust, ispaghula, castor bean dust, ipecacuanha or azodicarbonamide\n1st September 1986;\n(b) in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from byssinosis but who has not been employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation mentioned in regulation 2(c) of the old regulations for a period or periods (whether before or after 5th July 1948) amounting in the aggregate to 5 years: 6th April 1979;\n(c) in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from infection by leptospira but neither is nor has been either incapable of work or suffering from a loss of faculty as a result of infection by—\n(i) leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae in the case of a person employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation involving work in places which are, or are liable to be, infested by rats, or\n(ii) leptospira canicola in the case of a person employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation involving work at dog kennels or the care or handling of dogs: 7th January 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5(6)(vi)(vii) substituted for Sch.5(6)(vi) (1.9.1986) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1986/1374), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/967/schedule/5/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}