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Version date: 12 March 2007 - onwards
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Regulation 13 Adjustment of increase of disablement benefit in respect of successive accidents

(1) Where a person who is entitled to a pension in respect of any accident suffered by him or her has received, or is entitled to, a disablement gratuity in respect of loss of faculty arising from any other accident, such loss of faculty shall, for the purposes of section 77, be treated as if it resulted from the accident in respect of which such disablement pension is payable.

(2) At any time at which the sum total of the several assessments in respect of two or more accidents suffered by any person amounts to less than 100 per cent during the continuance of the periods respectively taken into account thereby, the weekly rate of disablement pension which is payable to him or her may be increased in accordance with section 78 if he or she requires constant attendance as a result of the loss of faculty resulting from any one or more such accidents, whether or not that pension is payable in respect of an assessment of 100 per cent or in respect of that loss of faculty.

(3) A beneficiary who has suffered two or more accidents shall not be entitled at any time to more than one of each of the following increases of benefit, that is to say -

(a) by way of incapacity supplement, under section 77,

(b) in respect of the need of constant attendance, under section 78,

(c) in respect of a qualified child under section 76(2) or (3),