{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-scheme-1982/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/workmens-compensation-supplementation-scheme-1982/article-34.json",
  "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/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Contracting-out schemes",
  "text": "In relation to a person whose workmen's compensation is or was compensation under a contracting-out scheme, section 3(4) and (7) of the Act (which relates to the amount of a person's workmen's compensation) and articles 2, 4, 5 and 6 of this scheme shall apply subject, where appropriate, to the modification that, where by reason of the nature of the provisions of the contracting-out scheme—\n(a) there is difficulty in distinguishing the amount to which that person is or was entitled by way of workmen's compensation under that scheme from other payments to him; or\n(b) the said amount is or was reduced in consequence of other payments to him;\nthe amount of his workmen's compensation shall be taken to be such an amount as is reasonable in his case, having regard to the provisions of the contracting-out scheme and to the amount of the weekly payment by way of workmen's compensation which would, but for the contracting-out scheme, have been payable to him in respect of the relevant injury or disease.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 34 inserted (6.4.1987) by The Workmens Compensation (Supplementation) Amendment Scheme 1987 (S.I. 1987/419), arts. 1, 2(1)(c), with 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1489/article/34",
    "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."
}