{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-scheme-1982/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1489",
  "legislation_title": "The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Scheme 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-scheme-1982",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Allowances in respect of 2 or more different injuries or diseases",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this scheme, where a claimant or beneficiary is entitled for the same period to weekly payments by way of workmen's compensation in respect of 2 or more different injuries or diseases, or has been so entitled at any time since, in the case of basic allowance the commencement of the 1951 Act or, in the case of any other allowance the commencement of the 1965 Act, he shall be entitled to an allowance under this scheme in respect of each such injury or disease during any period of total or partial incapacity for work resulting from that injury or disease.\n(2) For the purpose of the last foregoing paragraph, a claimant or beneficiary—\n(a) shall not for the same period be entitled to receive 2 or more basic allowances at an aggregate weekly rate which exceeds £2.00; and\n(b) shall not in respect of any period for which he is entitled to a major incapacity allowance by reason of one or the joint result of 2 or more of such injuries or diseases, be entitled to receive any other allowance under this scheme, except for a basic allowance, by reason of any injury or disease; and\n(c) shall not for the same period be entitled to receive 2 or more lesser incapacity allowances at an aggregate weekly rate which exceeds the amount specified in section 2(6)(c) of the Act.\n(3) In such a case as is mentioned in paragraph (1) of this article, in ascertaining for the purposes of this scheme the amount of loss of earnings due to the relevant injury or disease the joint results of both or all such injuries or diseases may be treated as the result of any one of them but, in respect of any period during which such results are so treated, the claimant or beneficiary shall not be entitled to receive more than one basic allowance or more than one lesser incapacity allowance under this scheme.\n(4) Where a claimant or beneficiary is entitled for any period to an allowance under any scheme made under section 5 of the Act—\n(a) in respect of total disablement or total incapacity for a considerable period, he shall not be entitled to receive, for that period, any allowance under this scheme;\n(b) in respect of partial disablement, he shall not be entitled to receive by way of lesser incapacity allowance, for that period, a total weekly sum exceeding £1.00.\n(5) A person shall not, in respect of the same period, be entitled to receive 2 or more allowances under this scheme or under this scheme and a scheme made under section 5 of the Act at an aggregate weekly rate exceeding the corresponding disablement pension rate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1489/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:13:12.045591+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."
}