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Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979 (1979 c 41) | Legislation

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(1)     In this Act “dependantâ€, in relation to a person who, immediately before he died, was disabled by a disease to which this Act applies, means—

(a)     if he left a spouse [or civil partner] who was residing with him or was receiving or entitled to receive from him periodical payments for her maintenance, that spouse [or civil partner];

(b)     if paragraph (a) above does not apply but he left a child or children who fall within subsection (2) below,

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