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Amendment of section 43 of Principal Act (disablement benefit).
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21.—(1) Section 43 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution for subsection (7) (b) (inserted by the No. 2 Act of 1985) of the following paragraph:
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“(b) The scale prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) shall be the same for all persons.”,
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(b) the substitution for subsection (8) (inserted by the No. 2 Act of 1985) of the following subsection:
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“(8) Where the extent of the disablement is assessed for the period taken into account as amounting to 20 per cent. or more, disablement benefit shall be a pension (in this Chapter referred to as a disablement pension) for that period at the weekly rate set out in column (2) of Part III of the Second Schedule appropriate to the degree of disablement: Provided that where the period is limited by reference to a definite date, the pension shall cease on the death of the beneficiary before that date.”, and
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(c) the substitution for subsection (9) (b) (i) (inserted by the No. 2 Act of 1985) of the following paragraph:
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“(i) the scale shall be the same for all persons,”.
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(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 19th day of May, 1986.
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