
1 
This Scheme, which may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1985, shall be read as one with the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Scheme”) and shall come into operation on 1st April 1985.
2 
In Article 1(2) of the principal Scheme (interpretation), there shall be inserted, after the entry relating to “the appropriate determining authority”, the following entry:—“

 ‘asbestosis’ means fibrosis of the parenchyma of the lungs due to the inhalation of asbestos dust;
”.

3 
Schedule 1 to the principal Scheme shall be amended by the addition, at the end of the first and second columns thereof respectively, of the disease specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto and of the occupations set against the said disease in the second column of that Schedule.
4 
Schedule 4 to the principal Scheme shall be amended by the addition of “8” at the end of the first column thereof and of “1st April 1985” at the end of the second column thereof.
5 
Article 6(1)(a) of the principal Scheme (increase of allowance in respect of children) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
Tony Newton
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
19th March 1985John Major
A. G. Hamilton
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
21st March 1985
SCHEDULE
Article 3


Description of disease Nature of occupation
8. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of one or both of the following:—(a) asbestosis;(b) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening. (a) The working of handling of asbestos of any admixture of asbestos; or(b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; or(c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; or(d) substantial exposure to dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.