The Social Security (Industrial Injuries and Adjudication) Regulations 1993
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986—to allow adjudicating medical practitioners and specially qualified adjudicating medical practitioners to deal with matters in respect of industrial injuries and prescribed diseases which until now have been reserved for either medical boards or special medical boards;to permit a medical practitioner to adjudicate upon a claim where he has prepared a report upon a claimant’s case, if he proposes to dispose of the issue which arises in favour of the claimant;to make changes consequential upon the matters referred to in (i) and (ii);to make changes consequential upon the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I.1993/862) which make provision for a new prescribed disease D11.