
2024 No. 48
Social Security
The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
Made 8th March 2024
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1
The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 11(1) and (4) of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 and now vested in it.
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 and shall come into operation on the same day as the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Specified Diseases and Prescribed Occupations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024.
Amendment of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations
2 
In regulation 2 of the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (interpretation)—
(a) for the definition of “disease” substitute—“
 “disease” means a disease to which the Order applies (as specified in Article 3(1) of the Order or in an order made under that Article);”;
(b) omit the definition of “primary carcinoma of the lung”.
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
