Order made by the Department for Communities and laid before the Assembly under Article 11(2) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979, and subject to affirmative resolution procedure of the Assembly
2024 No. 46
Social Security
The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
Made 8th March 2024
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1
The Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 3(1) of, and paragraph 8(1) of the Schedule to, the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 and now vested in it.
Citation and commencement
1 
This Order may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 and shall come into operation on the day after it is affirmed by resolution of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases) Order
2 
For Article 2 of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases) Order (Northern Ireland) 1986 substitute—“
Specified Diseases
2. 
The following diseases are specified for the purposes of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979—
(a) asbestos-related primary carcinoma of the lung;
(b) unilateral or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.”.
Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Prescribed Occupations) Order
3 
In the table in Part 2 of the Schedule to the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Prescribed Occupations) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 (occupations prescribed in relation to the other diseases to which the Order applies)—
(a) in the left hand column (disease), in the entry relating to primary carcinoma of the lung, for “one or both of the following” until the end, substitute “asbestosis”;
(b) after the entry relating to primary carcinoma of the lung, insert—“
Primary carcinoma of the lung (except where there is evidence of asbestosis) Any occupation involving exposure to asbestos in the course of—
(a) the manufacture of asbestos textiles;
(b) spraying asbestos;
(c) asbestos insulation work; or
(d) applying or removing materials containing asbestos in the course of shipbuilding.”;
(c) in the left hand column, in the entry relating to bilateral diffuse pleural thickening, insert at the beginning “Unilateral or”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 8th March 2024
(L.S.)David Tarr
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
