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The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Type Ni-Statutory-Rule

Publication 2015-02-17

State In force

Jurisdiction Northern Ireland

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Made: 17th February 2015

Coming into operation: 1st April 2015

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(3) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and application

1

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2015.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a) paragraph (a) applies only in relation to a person—

(i) first diagnosed with mesothelioma on or after 1st April 2015; or

(ii) where the date of the first diagnosis with mesothelioma is unknown, if a claim is made by that person on or after 1st April 2015; and

(b) paragraph (b) applies only in relation to the dependant of a person who dies on or after 1st April 2015.

Amendment of the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations

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In the Schedule to the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008[^f00002]—

(a) for Table 1 substitute the Table set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b) for Table 2 substitute the Table set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Part 1

Part 2 Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 17th February 2015

Andrew M. Hamilton — A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to increase amounts of lump sums payable to people with mesothelioma or to their dependants under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The increase in each case is 1.2 per cent., rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c. 9 (N.I.)

[^f00002]: S.R. 2008 No. 354; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2014 No. 63

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