Workmen's Compensation (Silicosis and Asbestosis) Act 1930
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1930 c. 29 |
| Year | 1930 |
Workmen's Compensation (Silicosis and Asbestosis) Act, 1930
(20 & 21 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 29.
An Act to extend section forty-seven of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, to industries involving exposure to asbestos dust, and to amend the provisions of that section relating to medical arrangements and examinations.
[1st August 1930]
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 Extension of 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 84. s. 47, to industries involving exposure to asbestos dust.
1. Section forty-seven of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (which provides for the application of that Act to workmen suffering from silicosis), shall extend to industries and processes involving exposure to asbestos dust; and accordingly the amendments specified in the second column of the Schedule to this Act shall be made in the provisions of the said section specified in the first column of that Schedule.
2 Amendments of 15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 84. s. 47.
(1) The powers of the Secretary of State under section forty-seven of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, as extended by this Act, shall include power to make a general scheme applicable to all industries and processes and groups of industries and processes to which compensation schemes apply, for the purposes of co-ordinating the medical arrangements in connection with those compensation schemes; and provision may be made by such a general scheme—
(a ) for the establishment of a medical expenses fund to be administered by trustees appointed by the Secretary of State or otherwise as may be provided by the scheme:
(b ) for requiring such fees in respect of any examinations made or certificates given under the scheme, as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury, to be paid into the said fund by or on behalf of employers and workmen, and for the recovery of such payments; and for the payment and recovery out of the said fund of any expenses arising in connection with the medical arrangements provided for by the scheme, or with the administration of the medical expenses fund, which are directed by the scheme to be...
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