SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These regulations, which may be cited as the Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1986, shall come into operation on 1st September 1986. 2 In these regulations, the “ Prescribed Diseases Regulations ” means the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985 . Occupational Asthma 2 1 The Prescribed Diseases Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation. 2 In Part I of Schedule 1, the entry in the first column relating to the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) shall be amended by a substituting for sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph:— f animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories ; and b inserting, after sub-paragraph (g), the following sub-paragraphs:— h antibiotics; i cimetidine; j wood dust; k ispaghula; l castor bean dust; m ipecacuanha; n azodicarbonamide . 3 In the second column of Schedule 4, for the entry set against the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) there shall be substituted the following entry:— a In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:— i isocyanates; ii platinum salts; iii fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture, transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride or triethylenetetramine; iv fumes arising from the use of rosin as a soldering flux; v proteolytic enzymes; vi animals or insects used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories; vii dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation, harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal or flour made therefrom, 29th March 1982; b In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:— i animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories; ii antibiotics; iii cimetidine; iv wood dust; v ispaghula; vi castor bean dust; vii ipecacuanha; viii azodicarbonamide, 1st September 1986. . 4 In Schedule 5, in paragraph (6)(a), for the entry (vi) occupational asthma :29th March 1982; there shall be substituted the following entries:— “(vi) occupational asthma arising otherwise than as described at (vii) below :29th March 1982; (vii) Occupational asthma which is due to exposure to antibiotics, cimetidine, wood dust, ispaghula, castor bean dust, ipecacuanha or azodicarbonamide :1st September 1986; . Re-assessment of the extent of disability in respect of occupational deafness 3 For paragraph (5) of regulation 34 of the Prescribed Diseases Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph:— 5 Where on re-assessment of the extent of disability in respect of occupational deafness the average sensorineural hearing loss over 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies is not 50 db or more in each ear, or where there is such a loss but the loss in one or each ear is not 50 db or more due to occupational noise, the extent of disablement shall be assessed at less than 20 per cent. . Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 4 In the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 the following provisions are revoked to the extent specified:— a in regulation 47(1) the words “Subject to the provisions of regulation 51(3),” ; b in regulation 51, the whole of paragraph (3). Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services. Tony Newton Minister of State Department of Health and Social Security 5th August 1986