The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (2023 Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Made: 21st March 2024

Coming into operation: 22nd March 2024

The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(3) and 9(2)(a) and (3) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and application

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (2023 Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 and shall come into operation on 22nd March 2024.

• (2) In regulation 2—

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

• (i) first diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma on or after 1st April 2023; or

• (ii) where the date of the first diagnosis with diffuse mesothelioma is unknown, if a claim under section 1(1) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is made by that person on or after 1st April 2023; and

• (b) paragraph (b) applies only in relation to the dependant of a person who dies on or after 1st April 2023 and who, immediately before death, had diffuse mesothelioma.

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.

Revocation

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The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023[^f00003] are revoked.

SCHEDULE

PART 1

PART 2

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 21st March 2024.

Patrick Rooney — A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations revoke and re-enact the provisions of the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 which would otherwise cease to have effect by virtue of section 10(2) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. 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 diffuse mesothelioma or to their dependants under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The increase in each case is 10.1 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c. 9 (N.I.); see section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: S.R. 2008 No. 354; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2023 No. 144

[^f00003]: S.R. 2023 No. 144

Editorial notes

[^key-a49d930793cd58e007917eb42c61eb03]: Reg. 1 in operation at 22.3.2024, see reg. 1(1)

[^key-f8867cedd04b0f8fd533c98b691e362a]: Reg. 2 in operation at 22.3.2024, see reg. 1(1)

[^key-0f36235321b9bab0f957311a9b60f584]: Reg. 3 in operation at 22.3.2024, see reg. 1(1)

[^key-6168d8123f668ed27f79b1029bbe241c]: Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 22.3.2024, see reg. 1(1)

[^key-a6e889841183f61667283c91d80e738e]: Sch. Pt. 2 in operation at 22.3.2024, see reg. 1(1)