The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1993

These Regulations further amend the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 (S.I.1985/967) (“the principal Regulations”) by providing for the prescription of chronic bronchitis and emphysema as an industrial disease (“PD D12”) where either condition has, or both conditions have, been contracted after working for twenty years underground in a coal mine (regulation 6).In order to qualify for benefit a claimant must show—