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(1) These regulations, which may be cited
as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Miscellaneous
Amendments Regulations 1986, shall come into operation on 1st September 1986.

(2) In these regulations, the “Prescribed Diseases Regulations” means the Social Security
(Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985.

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(1) The Prescribed Diseases Regulations shall
be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In Part
I of Schedule 1, the entry in the first column
relating to the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) shall be amended
by
(a) substituting for 
sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph:—
“
(f) animals including insects
and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in
laboratories”; and
(b) inserting, after 
sub-paragraph (g), the following sub-paragraphs:—
“
(h) antibiotics;

(i) cimetidine;

(j) wood dust;

(k) ispaghula;

(l) castor bean dust;

(m) ipecacuanha;

(n) azodicarbonamide”.
(3) In the second column of 
Schedule 4, for the entry set against the disease
numbered D7 (occupational asthma) there shall be substituted the following
entry:—“
(a) In the case of a person
suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—

(i) isocyanates;
(ii) platinum salts;
(iii) fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture,
transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents)
based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride
or triethylenetetramine;
(iv) fumes arising from the use of rosin
as a soldering flux;
(v) proteolytic enzymes;
(vi) animals or insects used for the purposes
of research or education or in laboratories;
(vii) dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation,
harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats,
rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal
or flour made therefrom,29th March 1982;

(b) In the case of a person suffering
from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—
(i) animals including insects and other arthropods
used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;
(ii) antibiotics;
(iii) cimetidine;
(iv) wood dust;
(v) ispaghula;
(vi) castor bean dust;
(vii) ipecacuanha;
(viii) azodicarbonamide,1st September 1986.”.
(4) In Schedule
5, in paragraph (6)(a),
for the entry“
(vi) occupational
asthma :29th March 1982;”there shall be substituted the following entries:—“

“(vi) occupational asthma arising otherwise than as described at (vii)
below :29th March 1982;
(vii) Occupational asthma which
is due to exposure to antibiotics, cimetidine, wood dust, ispaghula, castor
bean dust, ipecacuanha or azodicarbonamide 
:1st September 1986;”.
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For paragraph (5)
of regulation 34 of the
Prescribed Diseases Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“
(5) Where on re-assessment
of the extent of disability in respect of occupational deafness the average
sensorineural hearing loss over 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies is not 50 db or
more in each ear, or where there is such a loss but the loss in one or each
ear is not 50 db or more due to occupational noise, the extent of disablement
shall be assessed at less than 20 per cent.”.
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In the Social
Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 the following provisions are revoked to the extent specified:—

(a) in regulation
47(1) the words “Subject to the
provisions of regulation 51(3),”
;
(b) in regulation
51, the whole of paragraph (3).

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Social
Services.
Tony Newton
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
5th August 1986