The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
Source: legislation.gov.uk (2025-06-19)

These Regulations amend the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to increase amounts of lump sums payable to people with diffuse mesothelioma or to their dependants under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The increase in the amounts paid from 1st April 2025 in each case is 1.7 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

Regulations made by the Department for Communities and laid before the Assembly under section 10(2) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 for approval of the Assembly before the expiration of six months from the date of their coming into operation

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2025 No. 66

Social Security

The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Made

26th March 2025

Coming into operation

1st April 2025

The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(3) and 9(1) and (2)(a) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008(1 (\"#f00001\")).

Citation, commencement and applicationN.I.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2025.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a)paragraph (a) applies only in relation to a person—

(i)first diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma on or after 1st April 2025; or

(ii)where the date of the first diagnosis with diffuse mesothelioma is unknown, if a claim under section 1(1) of the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is made by that person on or after 1st April 2025; and

(b)paragraph (b) applies only in relation to the dependant of a person who dies on or after 1st April 2025 and who, immediately before death, had diffuse mesothelioma.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/1/1\")

Amendment of the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) RegulationsN.I.

2. In the Schedule to the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(2 (\"#f00002\"))—

(a)for Table 1 substitute the Table set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(b)for Table 2 substitute the Table set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2(a) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/2/a\") in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with, see reg. 1(2)(a) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/1/2/a\")

I3Reg. 2(b) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/2/b\") in operation at 1.4.2025 with application in accordance with, see reg. 1(2)(b) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/1/2/b\")

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 26th March 2025

(L.S.)

Patrick Rooney

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEN.I.

PART 1N.I.

Commencement Information

I4Sch. Pt. 1 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/1/1\")

“Table 1

Amount of lump sum payment to person with mesothelioma

Payment

£

PART 2N.I.

Commencement Information

I5Sch. Pt. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1(1) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2025/66/regulation/1/1\")

“Table 2

Amount of lump sum payment to dependant

Payment

£

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 to increase amounts of lump sums payable to people with diffuse mesothelioma or to their dependants under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The increase in the amounts paid from 1st April 2025 in each case is 1.7 per cent, rounded up or down to the nearest £1 as appropriate.

(1)

2008 c. 9 (N.I.) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nia/2008/9\"); see section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)) (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nia/2016/5\")

(2)

S.R. 2008 No. 354 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2008/354\"); relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2024 No. 75 (\"http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2024/75\")