{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuriesprescribed-diseases-amendment-no2-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuriesprescribed-diseases-amendment-no2-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Addition of prescribed diseases in relation to halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons,n-hexane and methyl n-butyl ketone",
  "text": "(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) Part I of Schedule 1 shall be amended by the addition after the disease numbered C25 (occupational vitiligo) of the diseases specified in the first column of the Schedule to these Regulations and of the occupations set against those diseases in the second column of that Schedule.\n(3) In Schedule 4 to the principal Regulations (relevant dates for the purposes of regulation 43) after the entry relating to the disease numbered C25 (occupational vitiligo) there shall be inserted —\n(a) in the first column the words\n“C26 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Carbon Tetrachloride.\nC27 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Trichloromethane (Chloroform).\nC28 Central nervous system dysfunction and associated gastro-intestinal disorders due to exposure to Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride).\nC29 Peripheral neuropathy due to exposure to n-hexane or methyl n-butyl ketone.”; and\n(b) in the second column against each of the diseases listed in sub-paragraph (a) above the date “4th January 1988”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2112/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:15:45.168290+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."
}