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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuriesprescribed-diseases-amendment-no2-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2112",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuriesprescribed-diseases-amendment-no2-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which come into force on 4th January 1988, amend the description of the occupations for which occupational deafness is prescribed (regulation 2).\nRegulation 3, with the Schedule, provides for 4 further industrial diseases to be prescribed under chapter V of Part II of the Social Security Act 1975. Three of these diseases (C26, C27 and C28) relate to damage caused by halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons and one (C 29) relates to damage caused by n-hexane and methyl n-butyl ketone.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2112/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:15:45.168290+00:00"
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  "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."
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