
1983 No. 136
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases
Benefit Scheme 1983
Made 9th February 1983
Laid before Parliament 23rd February 1983
Coming into Operation 16th March 1983
The Secretary of State for Social Services, after consultation
with the Council on Tribunals insofar as required by 
section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries
Act 1971, and with the consent of the Treasury,
in exercise of powers conferred by 
sections 4(2), (3)
and (4) (as applied by 
section 8(1) ), 5, 
8(3) and (4), 
9(1), 10(1), 
12, 13 and 
14(2) of the Industrial Injuries and
Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 and of all other
powers enabling him in that behalf, and for the purpose only of consolidating
schemes hereby revoked, hereby makes the following scheme:—
PART I GENERAL
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 

(1) This scheme may be cited as the 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1983
, and shall come into operation on 16th March
1983.
(2) In this scheme, unless the context otherwise
requires—
 “the Act”
means the Industrial Injuries
and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975;
 “the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998;
 “the Social Security Act”
 means the 
Social Security Act 1975;
 “the Industrial Diseases (Benefit)
Acts” means the 
Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Act 1951
and the Industrial Diseases
(Benefit) Act 1954;
 “the Workmen's Compensation
Acts” means the Workmen's Compensation
Acts 1925 to 1945, and any enactments repealed by the 
Workmen's Compensation Act 1925;
 “the Administrative Board”
 has the meaning assigned to it by article 11 of the 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1966
 immediately before the 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment)
(No.2) Scheme 1977 came into operation;
 “allowance”
means an allowance payable by virtue of 
Part II of this scheme and includes any increase
thereof;
 “the appropriate determining
authority”  means the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the First-tier Tribunal or the Upper Tribunal;
 ‘asbestosis’ means fibrosis of the parenchyma of the lungs due to the inhalation of asbestos dust;
 “beneficiary”
means a person entitled to an allowance under this scheme;

 “child benefit”
means benefit under 
Part I of the Child Benefit Act 1975;
 “claimant”
 means a person claiming an allowance or death benefit under this scheme and includes, in relation to the revision or supersession of a decision, a person affected by that decision;
 “corresponding disablement
pension rate” means the weekly
rate for the time being of a pension payable under 
section 57(6) of the Social Security Act in
respect of an assessment of 100 per cent;
 “death benefit”
means the benefit payable under this scheme in respect
of the death of any person;
 “foundry” means those parts of industrial premises where the production of metal articles (other than pig iron or steel ingots) is carried on by casting (not being diecasting or other casting in metal moulds), together with any part of the same premises where any of the following processes are carried on incidentally to such production, namely the drying and subsequent preparation of moulds and cores, knock-out operations and dressing or fettling operations;
 “medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner who has experience in the issues specified in regulation 12(1) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999;
 “medical board”
means the medical board appointed under 
paragraph 3 of the Silicosis and Asbestosis
(Medical Arrangements) Scheme 1931;
 “a specially qualified medical
practitioner” means a member of
a medical board;
 “pneumoconiosis”
means fibrosis of the lungs due to silica dust, asbestos
dust or other dust and includes the condition of the lungs known as dust reticulation;
and in the case of a person who suffers or has suffered from pneumoconiosis
accompanied by tuberculosis, the effects of the tuberculosis may be treated
as if they were the effects of the pneumoconiosis and in the case of a person
who suffers or has suffered from pneumoconiosis or pneumoconiosis accompanied
by tuberculosis, to an extent which would, if his physical condition were
otherwise normal, be of a gravity comparable to an assessment of not less
than 50 per cent under the Social Security Act, the effects of any accompanying
emphysema or chronic bronchitis may be treated as if they were the effects
of the pneumoconiosis;
 “relevant injury or disease”
 in relation to any person means an injury
or disease in respect of which he is or has at any time after 4th July 1956
been entitled to weekly payments by way of workmen's compensation or of an
allowance payable by virtue of any scheme made under the Act, the Industrial
Diseases (Benefit) Acts or the 
Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951,
including this scheme;
 “workmen's compensation”
 means compensation under the Workmen's
Compensation Acts 1925 to 1945, the enactments repealed by the 
Workmen's Compensation Act 1925 and the enactments
repealed by the Workmen's Compensation
Act 1906 or under any contracting out scheme
duly certified under any of those Acts or any payments under the Workmen's Compensation (War Addition)
Acts 1917 and 
1919 or under the 
Workmen's Compensation (Supplementary Allowances) Act 1940
as amended by the Workmen's
Compensation (Temporary Increases) Act 1943
(3) For the purposes of this scheme—

(a) a claim for an allowance in respect of
total disablement or total incapacity for work for a considerable period made
by a person who has previously been awarded an allowance in respect of partial
disablement shall be treated, for the purposes of the provisions relating
to the making of claims, as a separate claim;
(b) a period shall be treated as considerable
if it lasts or can be expected to last for not less than 13 weeks;
(c) a person may be treated as being, as
the result of pneumoconiosis, byssinosis or any of the diseases set out in 
Schedule 1 hereto, or as the joint result of
such a disease and one or more other relevant injuries or diseases, totally
incapable of work and likely to remain so incapable for a considerable period
notwithstanding that the disability resulting from the disease or, as the
case may be, diseases or injuries taken together, is not such as to prevent
him from being capable of work, if it is likely to prevent his earnings (including
any remuneration or profit derived from a gainful occupation) exceeding in
a year such amount as is for the time being prescribed in pursuance of 
section 58(3) of the Social Security Act (unemployability
supplement).
(4) For the purposes of this scheme, 2 persons
shall not be treated as having ceased to reside together if they would not
have been so treated under 
regulation 2 of the Local Security
Benefit (Persons Residing Together) Regulations 1977
(circumstances in which persons are not to be treated as having ceased to
reside together).
(5) Except insofar as the context otherwise
requires—
(a) any reference in this scheme to a numbered
Part, article or Schedule is a reference to the Part, article or Schedule
of or to this scheme bearing that number;
(b) any reference in an article to a numbered
paragraph is to the paragraph of that article bearing that number; and
(c) any reference in a paragraph to a lettered
sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph of that paragraph bearing that letter.

PART II ALLOWANCES AND DEATH BENEFIT
Benefit payable under this scheme
2 

(1) Subject to the following provisions of
this scheme, benefit as hereinafter provided shall be payable out of  money provided by Parliament  to or in respect of any person—
(a) who is totally or partially disabled
or dies, or who has died at any time after 31st December 1949, as a result
of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis if the conditions in 
paragraph (2) are satisfied; or
(b) who is a person who is totally or partially
disabled (such disablement being likely to be permanent) as a result of any
of the diseases set out in the first column of 
Schedule 1 or who dies or has died as a result
of any of those diseases at any time after, in each case, the date set out
in Schedule 4
against the number corresponding to the number given to that disease in the
first column of Schedule 1,
if he was a person who has been employed in Great Britain before 5th July
1948 in any of the occupations set against that disease in the second column
of Schedule 1;
or
(c) who, being a person who satisfies the
conditions for benefit for partial disablement under 
sub-paragraph (a) or (b),
is totally incapable of work and likely to remain so incapable for a considerable
period as a joint result either of 2 or more of the diseases referred to in
those sub-paragraphs or of one such disease and one or more other relevant
injuries or diseases.
(2) Benefit shall only be payable to or in
respect of any person who is disabled or dies or who has died as a result
of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis—
(a) if he has been employed in Great Britain
before 5th July 1948 in any of the occupations in the case of which the disease
is prescribed in relation to persons employed in employed earner's employment
by virtue of regulations made under section 76
 of the Social Security Act which are in force
at the date on which this scheme comes into operation or are made at any time
thereafter during his lifetime;
(b) if, except in a case where benefit under
this scheme or any scheme revoked by this scheme, in respect of the disease
has previously been awarded, the disease is not prescribed in relation to
him under the Social Security Act;
(c) if it is  decided by the Secretary of State—
(i) that he is totally disabled as a result
of the disease; or
(ii) that, though not totally disabled, he
is or was partially disabled, within the meaning of 
article 14, as a result of the disease; or

(iii) that he has died as a result of the
disease.
(3) For the purposes of this scheme, the
expression “partially disabled”
means in relation to any person claiming benefit as
a result of a disease other than pneumoconiosis or byssinosis that, though
not totally disabled by any of the diseases set out in 
Schedule 1, that person is suffering from the
disease to such a degree that his general physical capacity for employment
is thereby impaired.
Restriction on payment of benefit
3 

(1) Subject to the provision of 
paragraph (2), benefit shall not be payable
to or in respect of a person who is disabled or dies or has died as a result
of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis or any of the diseases set out in 
Schedule 1 if throughout the employment mentioned
in article 2 he
was employed otherwise than as a workman within the meaning of the 
Workmen's Compensation Act 1925, or if in respect
of any attack of the disease suffered by him—
(a) he or any person is or has been entitled
to benefit under Chapter IV
or V of Part II of the Social
Security Act;
(b) he or any other person would be or would
have been so entitled but for the operation of 
section 82, 85
or 91 of the Social Security
Act (which sections relate respectively to disqualification and suspension,
overlapping benefits and adjustment for successive accidents);
(c) he or any person is or has been entitled
to any payment corresponding to such benefit under any legislation of Northern
Ireland;
(d) he, or any person, being a member of
his family within the meaning of the Workmen's
Compensation Act 1925, has received or is entitled
to compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts or by virtue of any
scheme made or certified thereunder (other than compensation in respect of
total or partial incapacity for work under the 
Refractories Industries (Silicosis) Scheme 1931
or the Sandstone Industry
(Silicosis) Scheme 1931  or by virtue of any
scheme or law in force in any country or territory outside Great Britain providing
for compensation in respect of the disease;
(e) he would have received or would be entitled
to such compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts or by virtue of
any scheme made or certified as aforesaid but for the fact that he was or
is entitled to receive compensation in respect of disablement from any other
disease or in respect of an injury by accident; or
(f) he, or his personal representative, or
any of his relatives has recovered any sum by way of damages whether at common
law or under the Fatal Accidents
Act 1976, or the 
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934.

(2) The provisions of 
paragraph (1)(d), (e)
and (f) shall not operate
to prevent benefit from being payable to or in respect of any person in any
case in which the disablement or death in respect of which the claim is made
is the result of a separate and fresh contraction of the disease.
Allowances payable under this scheme
4 

(1) Subject to the provisions of this scheme,
the benefit payable—
(a) in cases of disablement due to pneumoconiosis,
byssinosis or any of the diseases set out in 
Schedule 1 shall be an allowance—
(i) for any period during which the disablement
is total, at the corresponding disablement pension rate; or
(ii) for any period during which the disablement
is partial, at the weekly rate specified in 
section 7(2)(b) of the Act;
(b) in cases of total incapacity for work
for a considerable period as a joint result of 2 or more relevant injuries
or diseases, at least one of which is a disease referred to in 
article 2(1)(a) or (b),
shall be an allowance at the corresponding disablement pension rate;and such allowances shall be payable in any such case at the appropriate
rate from the date (not being a date earlier than the date on which this scheme
comes into operation) as from which it is determined by the appropriate determining
authority that the claimant was totally incapable of work or totally or partially
so disabled, as the case may be, having regard, in the case of disablement
due to pneumoconiosis or byssinosis,  to the date decided by the Secretary of State 
in accordance with the provisions of article
14(4).
(2) For the purposes of 
paragraph (1)—
(a) for any period during which the claimant
is totally disabled as a result of one of the said diseases or totally incapable
of work as a joint result of 2 or more of the said diseases or of one or more
such diseases and one or more injuries or diseases entitling the claimant
to workmen's compensation, the weekly rate of benefit shall be reduced—

(i) by the amount of any allowance payable
to him in excess of £1.00 for partial disablement due to any of the
said diseases; and
(ii) by the amount of any workmen's compensation
payable to him in respect of any relevant injury or disease; and
(b) subject to the provisions of 
sub-paragraph (a), a person shall not, in respect
of the same period, be entitled to receive 2 or more allowances under this
scheme at an aggregate weekly rate exceeding the corresponding disablement
pension rate.
(3) A claimant shall not be entitled to an
allowance unless he is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom at the date
of the claim or was, immediately before 10th March 1952, in receipt of any
such benefit or payment as is mentioned in article
10.
(4)  An increase of allowance under the provisions of article 5, 6, 7 or 8 shall not be payable for any period during which the person entitled to the allowance is absent from the United Kingdom except that—
(a) a person shall not be disqualified from receiving an increase of allowance under article 5 or 6 by reason of being temporarily absent from the United Kingdom during a period in which that person is entitled to receive an increase of allowance on account of unemployability under article 7;
(b) a person shall not be disqualified from receiving an increase of allowance under article 8 by reason of being temporarily absent from the United Kingdom during the period of 6 months from the date on which such absence commences or during such longer period as the Secretary of State may, having regard to the purposes of the absence and any other factors which appear to him to be relevant, allow;
(c) a person shall not be disqualified from receiving an increase of allowance under article 7 by reason of being temporarily absent from the United Kingdom.
Cases in which disablement shall be regarded as being total
4A 
On any claim for benefit in respect of any disease set out in paragraph 5, 8 or 8A of Schedule 1 the disablement shall be regarded as being total.
Increase of allowance in respect of  spouse or civil partner
5 

(1) Subject to the provisions of 
paragraph (3), for any period during which
a person entitled to an allowance in respect of total disablement would be
treated as residing with  his or herspouse or civil partner  or contributing to  his or her  maintenance at a
weekly rate of not less than the amount specified in 
paragraph (2) the weekly rate of the allowance
payable to that person shall, subject to the provisions of 
Schedule 2, be increased by the amount specified
in paragraph (2).

(2) For the purposes of 
paragraph (1) and of paragraph 2 of
Schedule 2, the specified amount shall be an
amount equal to the increase of benefit in respect of an adult dependant specified
in  paragraph 1(a) of Part IV  of Schedule 4
to the Social Security Act.
(3) Where a person is also entitled to an
increase of allowance under the provisions of 
article 7(1), and is residing with  his or herspouse or civil partner,
the provisions of paragraph 1(b) of Schedule
2 shall not have effect, but where the earnings
of  his or herspouse or civil partner  for the calendar week ending last before any week for which  he or she 
is entitled to any such increase of allowance exceeded the amount first stated
in section 66(4)
of the Social Security Act, the increase of allowance under this article shall
be reduced in the manner provided by the said 
section 66(4), and for those purposes the earnings
of  his or herspouse or civil partner  shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of regulations 2 to 5
of the Social Security Benefits (Computation of Earnings)
Regulations 1978.
(4) Where in any case a person is entitled
to an increase of allowance under the provisions of 
article 7(1), the foregoing provisions of this
article shall apply but with the substitution of the words “paragraph 12  of Part V” for the words 
“paragraph 1(a) of Part IV”
 in paragraph (2).

Increase of allowance in respect of children
6 

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), for any period during which a person is entitled to child benefit in respect of a child or children the weekly rate of the allowance payable to that person shall be increased by an amount equal to the increase (if any) which would be payable to him in respect of that child or those children—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) under section 64 of the Social Security Act if, in the case of a person entitled to an increase of allowance under the provisions of article 7(1), he were entitled to a disablement pension plus unemployability supplement.
(2) Where, for any period, the conditions
for the receipt by a person of an increase of allowance under this article
are satisfied, such increase of allowance shall be adjusted by reference to
the weekly rate at which an allowance or an increase of benefit in respect
of that child or those children is payable for that period under the Social
Security Act so as to be payable (if at all) for that period at a weekly rate
arrived at by deducting from the weekly rate at which the increase of allowance
under this article would otherwise have been payable the said weekly rate
of an allowance or increase of benefit payable under that Act.
Increase of allowance on account of unemployability
7 

(1) Where a person could for the purposes
of section 58
of the Social Security Act (unemployability supplement) be treated as incapable
of work and likely to remain permanently so incapable as the result of any
disease in respect of which he is entitled to an allowance in respect of disablement,
the weekly rate of the allowance payable to him shall, subject to the provisions
of paragraph (3),
be increased by an amount equal to the increase of disablement pension (if
any) which would be payable to him under the said 
section 58 or, as the case may be, the said 
section 58 and section 59
of the said Act if he were entitled to disablement pension in respect of the
disease.
(2) For the purposes of this article, the
reference in section 59(2)
of the Social Security Act (increase of unemployability supplement by reference
to beneficiary's age on qualifying date) to “the
qualifying date” shall, subject
to the provisions of subsections (3), 
(4) and (5)
of that section, mean the beginning of the first week for which a person qualified
for an increase of allowance under this article.
(3) An increase of an allowance under this
article shall be payable for such period as may be determined at the time
it is granted, but may be renewed from time to time.
(4) An increase of an allowance under this
article shall not be payable to any person for any period during which he
is entitled to an increase of disablement pension by way of unemployability
supplement under section 58
or 159 of the Social Security
Act.
(5) Where a person is entitled to an allowance
in respect of partial disablement and is also entitled to an increase of that
allowance under this article, the provisions of 
article 5 shall apply to him for any period
during which he is entitled to such increase as they apply to a person entitled
to an allowance in respect of total disablement and an increase of that allowance
under this article.
Increase of allowance when constant attendance needed and in respect
of exceptionally severe disablement
8 

(1) Where a person is entitled to an allowance
in respect of total disablement and requires constant attendance as a result
of that disablement, the weekly rate of the allowance payable to him shall,
subject to the provisions of paragraph (2),
be increased by an amount equal to the increase of disablement pension (if
any) which would be payable to him under section
61 of the Social Security Act (constant attendance
allowance) or under section 63
of the said Act (exceptionally severe disablement allowance) if he were entitled
in respect of the disease to a disablement pension calculated by reference
to an assessment of 100 per cent.
(2) An increase of an allowance under this
article shall not be payable to any person in respect of any period during
which he is entitled to an increase of disablement pension in respect of the
need for constant attendance or in respect of exceptionally severe disablement
under section 61, 
63 or 159
of the Social Security Act.
Death benefit
9 

(1) The benefit payable in cases of death
due to pneumoconiosis, byssinosis or any of the said diseases set out in 
Schedule 1 shall be payable to or for the benefit
of such of the dependants of the deceased as are specified in 
paragraph (2) and, subject to the following
provisions of this scheme, shall be a capital sum of an amount calculated
in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs
(4) and (5).

(2) The dependants of a person entitled to
claim death benefit under this scheme are such of the members of the deceased's
family as were wholly or in part dependent on the deceased at the time of
his death or are treated as being so dependent under the provisions of 
paragraph (3), and for the purposes of this
paragraph the expression “member of a family”
 has the same meaning as it has for the
purposes of the Workmen's Compensation Act 1925 and is to be read as including a surviving civil partner of the deceased.
(3) For the purposes of 
paragraph (2), a person shall be treated as
having been wholly or in part dependent (as the case may be) upon the deceased
at the time of his death if that person would have been so dependent but for
the disablement due to the disease.
(4) The capital sum payable by way of death
benefit in respect of a deceased person shall, subject to the condition that
where, under the following provisions of this paragraph, such sum is payable
to more than one person the total payment shall not exceed £300, be
calculated and payment made in accordance with those provisions and with the
order of priority herein set out:—
(a) where the deceased is survived by—

(i) his widow who was residing with him at
his death, or
(ii) her widower who was wholly dependent
upon her and who was residing with her at her death,   or
(iii) his or her surviving civil partner who was wholly dependant upon him or her and who was residing with him or her at the time of his or her death,the sum of £300 shall be payable  to that widow, that widower or, as the case may be, that surviving civil partner;
(b) where the deceased is survived by no
such  widow, widower or surviving civil partner  as aforesaid but is survived by—
(i) either his widow who was at his death
receiving or entitled to receive or would but for the relevant disease have
been receiving from him periodic payments for her maintenance of not less
than the amount prescribed by regulations for the purposes of 
section 67(1)(b) of the Social Security Act
or, where the deceased was a woman, by her widower who was wholly dependent
upon her; and
(ia) his or her surviving civil partner who was wholly dependant on the deceased at the time of the deceased's death; or
(ii) a child who was at his or her death
residing with him or her and in respect of whom he or she was entitled to
child benefit,the sum of £300 shall be divided equally  between the widow, widower or, as the case may be, the surviving civil partner and that child or, if there is more than one child, between the widow, widower or, as the case may be, the surviving civil partner and those children;
(c) where the deceased is survived by such
a  a widow, widower or surviving civil partner  as is mentioned in paragraph
(4)(b)(i) but by no such child as described
in paragraph (4)(b)(ii)
the sum of £300 shall be payable  to that widow, that widower or, as the case may be, to that surviving civil partner;
(d) where the deceased is survived by no
such  widow, widower or surviving civil partner  as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-paragraphs but
is survived by a child who was at his death, residing with him and in respect
of whom he was entitled to child benefit, the sum of £300 shall be payable
to that child or, if more than one, divided equally between those children;

(e) where the deceased is survived by no
such person as aforesaid but is survived by a member of his family who was
wholly maintained by him at the date of his death, the sum of £300 shall
be payable to that member or, if more than one, divided equally between those
members;
(f) where the deceased is survived by no
such person as aforesaid but is survived by any member of his family who was
partly maintained by him at the date of his death, such sum or sums not exceeding
in total £300 shall be payable to that member or, if more than one,
those members, as may be reasonable and proportionate to the loss sustained
by such member or members.
(5) For the purposes of this article, a dependant
shall be disregarded—
(a) where the dependant has died (whether
he had made a claim for death benefit or not) before an award of such benefit
in respect of the deceased has been made; or
(b) where the dependent was not ordinarily
resident in the United Kingdom at the date of the death of the deceased.
Reduction of allowance or death benefit where benefit payable or paid
under pre-1949 benefit schemes
10 

(1) Where benefit is payable or has been
paid to or in respect of any person under the 
Byssinosis (Benefit) Scheme 1941 or the 
Pneumoconiosis (Benefit) Scheme 1943—

(a) the amount of an allowance payable to
him for any period in respect of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis shall be reduced
by the amount of any weekly payments of such benefit for the same period;
and
(b) the amount of death benefit shall be
reduced by the amount of any benefit paid or payable in respect of his death
under the said Pneumoconiosis (Benefit) Scheme
.
(2) For the purposes of 
paragraph (1) of this article, any payments
made by the National Coal Board to or in respect of a person in whose case
benefit would have been payable under the Pneumoconiosis
(Benefit) Scheme 1943, but for the fact that
he was certified as totally disabled, or that he had died, more than 5 years
after 1st July 1943, shall be treated as if they had been payments by way
of benefit under the said scheme up to the amount of the benefit which would
have been so payable.
PART III ADMINISTRATION OF THE SCHEME AND DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS
Administration of the scheme
11 
This scheme shall be administered by the Secretary of State and,
subject to articles 16 and 
17, the provisions of  the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 and the 
Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982
which are specified in Schedule 3
shall, with the necessary modifications, apply for the purposes of this scheme.

Questions arising under the scheme
12 
Subject to the provisions of Part IV, any question relating to any allowance or benefit under this scheme shall be determined as if it had arisen under Part V of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and, except where the scheme otherwise provides, the provisions of the 1998 Act and of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, the Social Security (Payments on Account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988, the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 and ... which are specified in Schedule 3 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply for the purposes of this scheme.
PART IV MEDICAL BOARD
Report of a medical practitioner
13 

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), the Secretary of State, on consideration of a claim for an allowance in respect of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis, shall refer the case to a medical practitioner for advice.
(2) The Secretary of State need not refer the case as provided in paragraph (1), but may determine that an award cannot be made on the claim if the claimant fails to satisfy him—
(a) that he fulfils the conditions relating to the allowance;
(b) that there is reasonable cause for suspecting that he is totally or partially disabled within the meaning of this scheme as a result of pneumoconiosis or byssinosis or, where he has previously been awarded an allowance in respect of partial disablement and claims that he has become totally disabled, that he is totally disabled.
(3) For the purposes of determining whethere there is reasonable cause for suspecting that the claimant is totally or partially disabled by pneumoconiosis, the Secretary of State shall have power, in any case where he considers necessary, to obtain a radiological report on the case.
Provision of a report by a medical practitioner
14 

(1) Where a case is referred to  a medical practitioner  under the provisions of article 13,
 the medical board  shall, except as provided in 
paragraph (3), examine the claimant and shall
 provide a report—
(a) that the claimant is totally disabled
as a result of the disease, if satisfied that he is so disabled;
(b) that the claimant is or was partially
disabled as a result of the disease if satisfied—
(i) where the claim is made in respect of
pneumoconiosis, that though not totally disabled as a result of the disease,
he is or was suffering from the disease to such a degree that his general
physical capacity for employment is or was impaired by reason of the disease;
or
(ii) where the claim is made in respect of
byssinosis, that although not totally disabled as a result of the disease,
he is or was suffering from the disease to such a degree that, if the Social
Security Act had been applicable in his case, the resulting disablement would,
in the opinion of the medical practitioner, have been assessed at not less than the
minimum degree of disablement for which disablement benefit in respect of
byssinosis is payable under that Act.
(2) For the purposes of the last foregoing paragraph of this article, in the case of a claimant disabled as a result of byssinosis, the medical practitioner shall not make a report as provided in this paragraph unless satisfied that the disablement is likely to be permanent, in which event he shall include in his report a statement to that effect, together with his opinion as to the degree of disablement;
(3) The medical practitioner may provide a report in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) without examining the claimant, if satisfied that such examination can be dispensed with, having regard to any medical reports available as a result of any previous medical examination of the claimant carried out by a medical board or a specially qualified medical practitioner or a medical practitioner, whether in accordance with this scheme or otherwise, or if the claimant has died after having claimed the allowance but before having been examined by a medical board or a medical practitioner on the reference under article 13(1).
(4) A  report  given under 
paragraph (1) shall state—
(a) where  the medical practitioner  is satisfied
that the relevant condition specified in paragraph
(1)(a) is fulfilled, the date (not being a
date earlier than 10th March 1952) as from which it was fulfilled;
(b) where  the medical practitioner  is satisfied
that the relevant condition specified in paragraph
(1)(b) is or was fulfilled, the date (not being
a date earlier than 8th November 1954) as from which it was fulfilled.
(5) If, on a claim for death benefit, any
question arises whether the deceased had suffered from pneumoconiosis or from
pneumoconiosis accompanied by tuberculosis to an extent which would if his
physical condition were otherwise normal have been of a gravity comparable
to an assessment under the Social Security Act of not less than 50 per cent,
the Secretary of State shall refer that question to a medical practitioner who shall provide a report to the Secretary of State.
(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) A decision of the Secretary of State following the provision of a report provided under paragraph (5) stating that the deceased did not suffer from pneumoconiosis, or from pneumoconiosis accompanied by tuberculosis, may, to the extent mentioned in that paragraph, be revised by the Secretary of State.
PART V CLAIMS AND PAYMENTS
Information to be given when making a claim or obtaining payment of
allowance or death benefit
15 
Every person who makes a claim for or is entitled to an allowance
or death benefit and every person to whom or on whose behalf sums are payable
by way of an allowance or death benefit shall furnish in such manner and at
such times as the Secretary of State may determine, such certificates, documents,
information and evidence affecting the right to the allowance or death benefit
or to the receipt of any sum payable by way of an allowance or death benefit
as may reasonably be required by the Secretary of State, and, if so required,
shall for that purpose attend at such office or place as the Secretary of
State may direct.
Obligation to undergo medical examination
16 

(1) Subject to the following provisions of
this article, every claimant for, and every beneficiary in receipt of, an
allowance shall comply with every notice given to him by the Secretary of
State which requires him to submit himself to a medical examination by a  medical practitioner.

(2) Every notice given to a claimant or beneficiary
requiring him to submit himself to medical examination shall be given in writing
and shall specify the time and place of examination but shall not require
the claimant or beneficiary to submit himself to examination—
(a) in the case of examination by a  medical practitioner, before the expiration of the period of 6 days beginning with the date
of the notice or such shorter period as may be reasonable in the circumstances;

(b) in any other case, on a date earlier
than the third day after the date on which the notice was sent.
(3) Every claimant and every beneficiary
who, in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this article, is required
to submit himself to a medical examination shall attend at every such place
and at every such time as may be required.
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sums not payable when delay in claiming
17 

(1) An allowance, or an increase of allowance, shall not be payable to any person in respect of any period more than three months before the claim for the allowance or the increase, as the case may be, is made.
(2) Death benefit shall not be payable in respect of the death of any person to or for the benefit of any dependant who fails to make a claim for that benefit within a period of three months beginning with the day of the death.
Payment of allowances
18 
Where an allowance is payable under this scheme by means of orders
for the payment ... of weekly sums on account of the allowance,
those weekly sums shall be payable on Thursdays.
Obligation to notify change of circumstances
19 
Every person entitled to an allowance shall, as soon as may be
practicable, notify the Secretary of State in writing of any change of circumstances
which he might reasonably be expected to know might affect the continuance
of his right to any allowance or any part thereof awarded to him, or to the
receipt of any such allowance or part of an allowance.
Allowances to be inalienable
20 
Subject to the following provisions of this scheme, every assignment
of, or charge on, an allowance, and every agreement to assign or charge an
allowance, shall be void, and on the bankruptcy of a person entitled to an
allowance, the allowance shall not pass to any trustee or other person acting
on behalf of his creditors.
Forfeiture of allowances
21 

(1) Subject to the provision of 
paragraph (2), if a claimant or person entitled
to an allowance—
(a) fails without reasonable cause to comply
with any requirement of article 15, 
16 or 19,
he shall, if the appropriate determining authority so decides, forfeit any
allowance which would, apart from this paragraph, be payable in respect of
the period of such failure;
(b) wilfully obstructs or is guilty of other
misconduct in connection with any medical or other examination which he is
required under article 16
to undergo, or with any proceedings under this scheme for the determination
of his right to an allowance or to the receipt thereof, he shall forfeit,
for such period as the appropriate determining authority shall determine,
any allowance which would, apart from this paragraph, be payable.
(2) Nothing in 
paragraph (1) providing for forfeiture of an
allowance for failure to undergo medical examination or other examination
or any obstruction or misconduct in connection with such examination shall
authorise the disentitlement of the person concerned for a period exceeding
6 weeks on any forfeiture.
Allowances during imprisonment
22 
Where a person has become entitled, in respect of a period, or
any part of a period, during which he is and has continuously been undergoing
imprisonment or detention in legal custody, to sums by way of allowance, including
increases for dependants, which in the aggregate, either—
(a) equal the total amount payable by way
of an allowance for a period of one year; or
(b) together with any sums payable by virtue
of any scheme made under section 2
of the Act in respect of that period of imprisonment or detention in legal
custody, equal the total amount payable by way of such allowances for a period
of one year; then that person shall be disqualified from receiving any further
sums by way of allowance in respect of that period, or any part thereof.
PART VI RECOVERY AND ADJUSTMENT OF ALLOWANCES
Recovery of sums by deduction from allowances or benefit under the
Social Security Act or a scheme made under section 2 of the Act
23 

(1) Where any sums paid by way of an allowance
are required to be repaid to the  Secretary of State  under this scheme,
those sums may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be deducted
from any allowance or from any benefit under 
Chapter IV or V of Part II
of the Social Security Act or from any allowance under a scheme made under 
section 2 of the Act then or thereafter payable
to the person by whom they are to be repaid or to any person entitled to receive
any such allowance or benefit on his death, and the deduction may be made
at such rate as the Secretary of State may determine.
(2) Where, in the case of any person, any
sum may be recovered by deduction—
(a) by virtue of any provision of the Social
Security Act from any payment under that Act; or
(b) by virtue of any provision of a scheme
made under section 2
of the Act from any payment under such scheme;it may instead be recovered in whole or in part by deduction from
any allowance then or thereafter payable to him or to any person entitled
to receive such allowance on his death.
Set-off of overpayments on account of allowances
24 
Where any person has received any sum under
a scheme made under section 2
of the Act to which, by virtue of any provisions of such scheme he was disentitled
by reason of his being entitled in respect of the same period to an allowance
under this scheme subsequently awarded, and there has not been a requirement
to repay that sum (hereafter referred to as “the
overpayment”) to the  Secretary of State, then the
rate of the allowance, which would apart from this provision be payable for
any week in that period, shall be reduced by the overpayment made in respect
of that week.
PART VII TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Finality of decisions of the Administrative Board
25 
Except as provided by article 26,
any decision given by the Administrative Board on a claim or question under
provisions of the Pneumoconiosis,
Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1966
in force immediately before 1st July 1977 or under any scheme
made under the Industrial Diseases (Benefit) Acts in force immediately before
1st March 1966 shall be final for the purposes of this scheme.
Review of decisions of the Administrative Board
26 

(1) The Secretary of State may at any time and from time to time revise or supersede any decision given by the Administrative Board under provisions of the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1966 in force immediately before 1st July 1977, if—
(a) the decision was erroneous in view of new facts which have been brought to his notice since the date on which the decision was given or by reason of some mistake being made with respect to the facts or the law; or
(b) there has been any relevant change of circumstances since the decision was given.
(2) A decision of the Administrative Board may be revised or superseded by the Secretary of State on his own initiative or by application in writing to him for the purpose.
(3) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that an issue has arisen whether the decision as to an award of an allowance to which this article relates ought to be revised or superseded in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1), he may decide that payment of the allowance shall be suspended in whole or in part until that issue has been determined.
(4) Repayment of sums by way of an allowance in pursuance of the original decision shall not be required under this article in any case where it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that in the obtaining and receipt of the benefit the beneficiary, and any person acting for him, has throughout used due care and diligence to avoid overpayment.
(5) For the purposes of this article a decision given under any scheme made under the Industrial Diseases (Benefit) Acts shall be treated as if it had been a decision given under the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1966 as in force immediately before 1st July 1977.
(6) On a revision or supersession of a decision given by the Administrative Board under any scheme made under the Industrial Diseases (Benefit) Acts in force before 1st March 1966 the Secretary of State may determine any issue referred to him arising under the scheme
Claims in respect of periods before commencement of scheme
27 
A claim may be made in respect of a period before the coming into
operation of this scheme for an allowance payable by virtue of any scheme
revoked by this scheme, or any scheme made under the Industrial Diseases (Benefit)
Acts, and such a claim and any question arising in connection therewith shall
be determined by the appropriate determining authority, and any allowance
in respect of such a period shall be awarded and paid in accordance with the
provisions of the appropriate scheme in force during that period.
Conditions for allowance satisfied by previous awards
28 
Any allowance under this scheme may be paid without any claim or
award or awarded without any claim if, in the opinion of the Secretary of
State, evidence of the satisfaction of the conditions for that allowance is
afforded by the award, in respect of a period before the coming into operation
of this scheme, of an allowance payable by virtue of a scheme revoked by this
scheme or a scheme made under the Industrial Diseases (Benefit) Acts, or of
an allowance under the Workmen's
Compensation and Benefit (Supplementation) Act 1956.

Preservation of entitlement to larger amount of allowances
29 
Any beneficiary who is entitled under the provisions of section 3(2) or 
(3) of the Workmen's Compensation and
Benefit (Amendment) Act 1965 to payment of
a greater amount or aggregate amount than he is entitled to receive by way
of allowances under this scheme and any other scheme made under the Act shall,
so long as he is so entitled, be paid by way of increase to the allowance
or, if more than one, the largest allowance to which he is entitled under
this scheme, such a sum as will, in addition to the allowances payable to
him by virtue of this scheme and any other scheme made under the Act, ensure
that the total amount or aggregate amount payable to him is the amount to
which he is entitled by virtue of the said section
3(2) or (3).

PART VIII MISCELLANEOUS
Exemption from stamp duty
30 
Stamp duty shall not be chargeable upon an appointment or revocation
of an appointment of an agent and any other document authorised by or in pursuance
of this scheme or otherwise required in order to give effect to the provisions
of this scheme.
Reciprocal arrangements with Northern Ireland
31 
If in pursuance of section 13(1)
of the Act (reciprocal arrangements with Northern Ireland) the Secretary of
State makes reciprocal arrangements for payments under corresponding legislation
of Northern Ireland to be made out of  money provided by Parliament, the provisions
of this scheme shall apply in relation to such payments as if they were payments
made under this scheme.
Breach of requirements of scheme
32 
If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any requirements
of article 15 or 
article 19 he shall for such offence be liable
on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £10.
Service by post
33 
Any notice or other document required or authorised to be given
or sent to any person under the provisions of this scheme may be sent by post
to that person at his ordinary or last known address.
Revocation of earlier schemes
34 
The schemes and regulations specified in 
column 1 of Schedule 5 hereto are, subject
to the transitional provisions contained in 
Part VII, hereby revoked to the extent mentioned
in column 3.
Norman Fowler
Secretary of State for Social Services
We consent.
Donald Thompson
J. A. Cope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

SCHEDULE 1
Diseases and occupations to which, in addition to pneumoconiosis
and byssinosis, this scheme applies
Article 2


Description of disease Nature of occupation
1. Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the
skin due to tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), or any
compound, product, or residue of any of these substances, including scrotal
epithelioma (chimney sweep's cancer). 
Any occupation involving:The use or handling of, or
exposure to, tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), soot or
any compound, product, or residue or any of these substances.
2. Inflammation, ulceration or malignant
disease of the skin or subcutaneous tissue or of the bones or anaemia of aplastic
type due to X-rays, radium or other radio-active substance. Exposure to X-rays, radium or other radio-active substance.

3. 
(a) Carcinoma of the mucous membrane of the nose or associated
air sinuses.(b)
Primary carcinoma of a bronchus or of a lung. 
Work in a factory where nickel is produced by decomposition of a gaseous nickel
compound which necessitates working in or about a building or buildings where
that process or any other industrial process ancillary or incidental thereto
is carried on.
4. Primary
neoplasm of the epithelial lining of—(a) the urinary bladder (papilloma of the bladder),
(b) the renal pelvis,
(c) the ureter,
or(d) the urethra.
 (a)
Work in a building in which any of the following substances is produced for
commercial purposes—(i) Alpha-naphthylamine or
beta-naphthylamine;(ii) diphenyl substituted by at
least one nitro or primary amino group or by at least one nitro and primary
amino group;(iii) any of the substances mentioned in 
sub-paragraph (ii) above if further ring substituted
by halogeno, methyl or methoxy groups, but not by other groups;(iv) the salts of any of the substances mentioned in subparagraphs (i) to (iii) above;
(v) auramine or magenta;(b) the use or handling of any of the substances
mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i)
to (iv) of paragraph (a), or work in a process
in which any such substance is used or handled or is liberated;(c) the maintenance or cleaning
of any plant or machinery used in any such process as is mentioned in 
paragraph (b), or the cleaning of clothing
used in any such building as is mentioned in 
paragraph (a), if such clothing is cleaned
within the works of which the building forms a part or in a laundry maintained
and used solely in connection with such works.(d) exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles produced in aluminium smelting involving the Soderberg process (that is to say the method of producing aluminium by electrolysis in which the anode consists of a paste of petroleum coke and mineral oil which is baked in situ).
5. Primary malignant neoplasm of the mesothelium (diffuse
mesothelioma) of the pleura or of the peritonium. Exposure to asbestos, asbestos dust or any admixture of asbestos at a level above that commonly found in the environment at large.
6. Adeno-carcinoma
of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses. Attendance for work in or about a building where wooden furniture
is manufactured.
7. Carcinoma
of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma). (a) Attendance
for work in a building used for the manufacture of footwear or components
of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibre board; or(b) attendance for work at a
place used wholly or mainly for the repair of footwear made wholly or partly
of leather or fibre board.
8. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of asbestosis. (a) The working or handling of asbestos or 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 the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.

8A 
Primary carcinoma of the lung. Exposure to asbestos for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, five years or more in the course of—
(a) the manufacture of asbestos textiles; or
(b) the manufacture of gas masks; or
(c) spraying asbestos; or
(d) asbestos insulation work; or
(e) applying or removing materials containing asbestos in the course of shipbuilding.

8B 
Unilateral or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening with obliteration of the costophrenic angle. 
(a) The working or handling of asbestos or 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 the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.
 9.  Primary carcinoma of the lung 
(a) Work underground in a tin mine; or
(b) exposure to bis (chloromethyl) ether produced during the manufacture of chloromethyl methyl ether; or
(c) exposure to zinc chromate, calcium chromate or strontium chromate in their pure forms.
10. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of silicosis. Exposure to silica dust in the course of—
(a) the manufacture of glass or pottery;
(b) tunnelling in or quarrying sandstone or granite;
(c) mining metal ores;
(d) slate quarrying or the manufacture of artefacts from slate;
(e) mining clay;
(f) using siliceous materials as abrasives;
(g) cutting stone;
(h) stonemasonry; or
(i) work in a foundry.
SCHEDULE 2
Conditions relating to increase of allowance in respect
of a  spouse or civil partner
Article 5
1 
An increase of an allowance under the provisions
of article 5 in
respect of a  spouse or civil partner  shall not be payable for any period for which an increase
of disablement benefit in respect of a  spouse or civil partner  would not be payable under the
provisions of—
(a) section
82(5) of the Social Security Act (disqualification
for periods of absence from Great Britain and of imprisonment); or
(b) 
regulation 8 of the Social Security
Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (increase
of benefit in respect of  spouse or civil partner  not payable where  his or her  weekly earnings exceed
the amount therein specified).
2 
Where for any period—
(a) any benefit payable otherwise than under
this scheme which is specified as a dependency benefit in 
regulation 7(2) of the Social Security
(Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 (adjustment
of dependency benefit under the Social Security Act by reference to other
dependency benefits) is payable to a person in respect of  his or herspouse or civil partner  or other
adult dependant or to any other person on behalf of  his or herspouse or civil partner; or
(b) any one or more of the personal benefits
specified in regulation 10(1)
of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations
1979 (adjustment of dependency benefit under
the Social Security Act by reference to personal benefits) is or are payable
to  his or herspouse or civil partner;
at a weekly rate or (if more than one) at an aggregate weekly
rate—
(i) which is equal to or exceeds the amount
specified in article 5(2),
then for that period an increase of an allowance in respect of  his or herspouse or civil partner  shall
not be payable; or
(ii) of less than the amount specified in 
article 5(2), then for that period such increase
shall be reduced by an amount equal to the weekly rate or the aggregate weekly
rate of such benefit or benefits.
SCHEDULE 3
PROVISIONS OF THE 1998 ACT OR REGULATIONS APPLICABLE (WITH THE NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS) TO THIS SCHEME
Articles 11 and 12


Provisions of the 1998 Act or of Regulations Subject matter
Social Security Act 1998—

 Section 8 Decisions by Secretary of State

 Sections 9 and 10 Revisions, and supersession of decisions

 Section 11 Regulations with respect to decisions.

 Section 12 Appeal to an appeal tribunal

 Section 14 Appeal from an appeal tribunal to Commissioner
The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982—

 Regulation 3 Suspension of payment of benefit during imprisonment etc.
The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987—

 Regulation 4 Making a claim for benefit

 Regulation 5 Amendment and withdrawal of claim

 Regulation 6 Date of claim

 Regulation 16 Date of entitlement under an award for the purpose of payability of benefit and effective date of change of rate

 Regulation 17 Duration of awards

 Regulation 20 Time and manner of payment: general provision

 Regulation 20A Payment on presentation of an instrument for benefit payment

 Regulation 21 Direct credit transfer

 Regulation 22 Long term benefits

 Regulation 25 Payment of attendance allowance and constant attendance allowance at a daily rate

 Regulation 28 Fractional amounts of benefit

 Regulation 30 Payments on death

 Regulation 33 Persons unable to act

 Regulation 38 Extinguishment of right to payment where not obtained within prescribed period

 Regulation 47 Instruments of payment
Social Security (Payments on Account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations 1988—

 Regulation 5 Offsetting prior payment against subsequent award
The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999—

 Regulation 3 Revision of decisions

 Regulation 4 Late application for a revision

 Regulation 5 Date from which a decision revised under section 9 takes effect
The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999—

 Regulation 6 Supersession of decisions

 Regulation 7 Date from which a decision superseded under section 10 takes effect

 Regulation 8 Effective date for late notification of change of circumstances

 Regulation 12 Decisions of the Secretary of State relating to industrial injuries benefit

 Regulation 16 Suspension in prescribed cases

 Regulation 17 Provision of information or evidence

 Regulation 18 Termination in cases of failure to furnish information or evidence

 Regulation 19 Suspension and termination for failure to submit to medical examination

 Regulation 20 Making of payments which have been suspended

 Regulation 25 Other persons with a right of appeal

 Regulation 26 Decisions against which an appeal lies

 Regulation 27 Decisions against which no appeal lies

 Regulation 28 Notice of decision against which appeal lies

 Regulation 30 Appeal against a decision which has been revised

 Regulation 31 Time within which an appeal is to be brought

 Regulation 32 Late appeals

 Regulation 33 Making of appeals and applications

 Regulation 34 Death of a party to an appeal
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SCHEDULE 4
Dates after which death from diseases correspondingly
numbered and set out in Schedule 1 must have occurred for provisions of this
scheme to apply
Article 2


Number of disease in 
Schedule 1 Date after which death must have occurred
1 
31st December 1949
2 31st December 1949
3 27th July 1967
4 
27th July 1967  except in the case of a death where benefit is payable by reason only of paragraph (d) in the entry in respect of that disease in Schedule 1, and in that case 24th June 1993
5 27th July 1967
6 27th May 1969
7 
8th August 1979
8 1st April 1985
9 1st April 1987
10 24th June 1993
SCHEDULE 5
Schemes revoked
Article 34


Citation Statutory
Instrument Extent of revocation

The 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme 1966
 S.I. 1966/164 
The whole of the scheme
The 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment)
Scheme 1966 
S.I. 1966/581 
The whole of the scheme
The 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment)
Scheme 1967 
S.I. 1967/1205 
The whole of the scheme
The 
Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment)
(No. 2) Scheme 1967 S.I. 1967/1233 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1969 S.I. 1969/722 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 1969 S.I. 1969/1196 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1971 S.I. 1971/1222 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1972 S.I. 1972/1289 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1973 S.I. 1973/1439 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1974 S.I. 1974/944 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1975 S.I. 1975/514 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 1975 S.I. 1975/1139 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1977 S.I. 1977/380 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) (No. 2) Scheme 1977 S.I. 1977/992 The whole of the scheme
The Workmen's Compensation
Supplementation and Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases
Benefit (Further Amendment) Scheme 1977 S.I. 1977/1063 The whole of the scheme
The Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis
and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit (Amendment) Scheme 1979 S.I. 1979/996 The whole of the scheme