The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

N.I.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2020 No. 36

Social Security

The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

18th March 2020

Coming into operation

1st April 2020

Approved by resolution of the Assembly on

16th June 2020

The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(3) and 9(2)(a) and (3) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008(1).

Citation, commencement and applicationN.I.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2020.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a)paragraph (a) applies only in relation to a person—

(i)first diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma on or after 1st April 2020, or

(ii)where the date of the first diagnosis with diffuse mesothelioma is unknown, if a claim under section 1(1) of the Mesothelioma etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is made by that person on or after 1st April 2020; and

(b)paragraph (b) applies only in relation to the dependant of a person who dies on or after 1st April 2020 and who, immediately before death, had diffuse mesothelioma.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2020, see reg. 1(1)

Amendment of the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) RegulationsN.I.

2.  In the Schedule to the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(2)—

(a)for Table 1 substitute the Table set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b)for Table 2 substitute the Table set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2020, see reg. 1(1)

RevocationN.I.

3.  The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019(3) are revoked.

Commencement Information

I3Reg. 3 in operation at 1.4.2020, see reg. 1(1)

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 18th March 2020

(L.S.)

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEN.I.

Part 1N.I.

Commencement Information

I4Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 1.4.2020, see reg. 1(1)

Table 1

Amount of lump sum payment to person with mesothelioma

Age of person with mesothelioma at first diagnosis, or, if unknown, at date of claim Payment
£
37 and under 93,827
38 92,003
39 90,182
40 88,362
41 86,538
42 84,716
43 83,808
44 82,892
45 81,984
46 81,072
47 80,161
48 77,615
49 75,065
50 72,510
51 69,962
52 67,405
53 65,585
54 63,766
55 61,948
56 60,117
57 58,296
58 53,561
59 48,822
60 44,092
61 39,353
62 34,617
63 31,700
64 28,782
65 25,872
66 22,956
67 20,042
68 19,448
69 18,852
70 18,266
71 17,673
72 17,084
73 16,579
74 16,066
75 15,574
76 15,080
77 and over 14,578

Part 2N.I.

Commencement Information

I5Sch. Pt. 2 in operation at 1.4.2020, see reg. 1(1)

Table 2

Amount of lump sum payment to dependant

Age of person with mesothelioma at death Payment
£
37 and under 48,829
38 47,779
39 46,731
40 45,685
41 44,637
42 43,590
43 42,587
44 41,576
45 40,580
46 39,579
47 38,579
48 37,349
49 36,116
50 34,889
51 33,663
52 32,434
53 31,426
54 30,428
55 29,426
56 28,417
57 27,418
58 24,645
59 21,862
60 19,087
61 16,307
62 13,525
63 12,731
64 11,943
65 11,135
66 10,340
67 and over 8,084

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to increase amounts of lump sums payable to people with diffuse mesothelioma or to their dependants under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The increase in the amounts paid from 1st April 2020 in each case is 1.7 per cent., rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

(1)

2008 c. 9 (N.I.); see section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))

(2)

S.R. 2008 No. 354; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2019 No. 187