Workmen's Compensation and Benefit (Byssinosis) Act 1940
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1940 c. 56 |
| Year | 1940 |
Workmen's Compensation and Benefit (Byssinosis) Act, 1940
(3 & 4 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 56.
An Act to provide for the payment of compensation or disablement benefit in the case of male workmen who have died from, or become totally and permanently incapacitated for work as the result of, the respiratory disease known as byssinosis; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[20th November 1940]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Compensation scheme for workmen in cotton industry suffering from byssinosis.
(1) The Secretary of State may by scheme (in this Act referred to as a ‘compensation scheme’) provide for the payment of compensation and supplementary allowances, in accordance with the scales prescribed by the Workmen's Compensation Acts, 1925 to 1940, by employers of male workmen who are certified in such manner as may be prescribed by the scheme to have been employed for periods amounting in the aggregate to not less than twenty years in cotton card rooms or other specified parts of factories engaged in the spinning of raw cotton, and to have died from, or become totally and permanently incapacitated for work as the result of, the respiratory disease known as byssinosis.
(2) Provision may be made by a compensation scheme—
(a ) for setting up an administrative board representative of both employers and workmen, with an independent chairman, to administer the scheme and to settle claims and other matters arising thereunder, and for the duties, powers and procedure of that board;
(b ) for the appointment and remuneration of a medical board and for its duties and powers in connection with the scheme;
(c ) for the establishment of an expenses fund to be administered by the administrative board or otherwise as may be provided by the scheme;
(d ) for requiring to be paid into the said fund by or on behalf of employers and workmen such fees in respect of the exercise by either of the said boards of their functions under the scheme as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State, and for the recovery of such payments; and for the payment and recovery out of the said fund of the remuneration of the medical board and of such expenses incurred by either of the said boards for the purposes of the scheme (including the remuneration of officers of the administrative board), or by workmen submitting themselves for examination by the medical board, as may be directed by the scheme to be so paid;
(e ) for requiring the payment to an employer from whom compensation is recoverable in respect of the death or incapacity of any workman of contributions by such other employers of that workman in any employment to which the scheme relates as may be prescribed by the scheme; and
(f ) for the...
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