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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/schedule-5/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
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  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The regulations may not provide for the disability assistance that is to be given to an individual to be given by way of a lump-sum payment where the individual's entitlement arises on account of the individual having, or having had—\n(a) pneumoconiosis,\n(b) byssinosis,\n(c) diffuse mesothelioma,\n(d) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening, or\n(e) primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of—\n(i) asbestosis,\n(ii) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening, or\n(iii) both.",
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      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 18 in force at 8.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/295, reg. 2(c)"
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  "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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