Part IV Reduced Earnings Allowance

Part IV Reduced Earnings Allowance

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(1)     Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, an employed earner shall be entitled to reduced earnings allowance if—

(a)     he is entitled to a disablement pension or would be so entitled if that pension were payable where disablement is assessed at not less than 1 per cent.; and

(b)     as a result of the relevant loss of faculty, he is either—

(i)     incapable, and likely to remain permanently incapable, of following his regular occupation; and

(ii)     incapable of following employment of an equivalent standard which is suitable in his case,

or is, and has at all times since the end of the period of 90 days referred to in section 103(6) above been, incapable of following that occupation or any such employment;

but a person shall not be entitled to reduced earnings allowance to the extent that the relevant loss of faculty results from an accident happening on or after 1st October 1990 (the day on which section 3 of the Social Security Act 1990 came into force) [and a person shall not be entitled to reduced earnings allowance—

(i)     in relation to a disease prescribed on or after 10th October 1994

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