Workmen's Compensation (Silicosis) Act 1918
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1918 c. 14 |
| Year | 1918 |
Workmen's Compensation (Silicosis) Act, 1918
(8 & 9 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 14.
An Act to provide for the payment of compensation in the case of workmen who suffer death or disablement or are suspended from employment owing to the disease known as fibroid phthisis or silicosis of the lungs.
[30th July 1918]
Be 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 Scheme for compensation to workmen.
(1) The Secretary of State may by scheme provide for the payment of compensation by the employers of workmen in any specified industry or process or group of industries or processes involving exposure to silica dust—
(a ) who are certified in such manner as may be prescribed by the scheme to have suffered death or total disablement from the disease known as fibroid phthisis or silicosis of the lungs (in this Act referred to as silicosis) or from that disease accompanied by tuberculosis; or
(b ) who, though not totally disabled, are found on medical examination to be suffering from silicosis, or from silicosis accompanied by tuberculosis, to such a degree as to make it dangerous to continue work in the industry or process, and are for that reason suspended from employment:
Provided that in the case of silicosis accompanied by tuberculosis provision shall not be made by the scheme for the payment of compensation unless the silicosis was so far advanced as to make the workman specially liable to tuberculosis infection or, though not so far advanced, was likely to accelerate materially the progress of the disease.
(2) The scale of compensation fixed by the scheme in the case of death or total disablement due to silicosis unaccompanied by tuberculosis shall be that prescribed by the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 , as amended by any subsequent enactment, and in any other case shall be such as may be prescribed by the scheme.
(3) Provision may be made by the scheme—
(a ) for the establishment of a general compensation fund, to be administered either through a mutual trade insurance company or society of employers, or in such other manner as may be provided by the scheme;
(b ) for requiring employers to subscribe to the fund, and for the recovery of such subscriptions, and for the payment and recovery out of the fund of all compensation under the...
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