The National Health Service (Scotland) (Injury Benefits) Amendment Regulations 1999
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Scotland) (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1998 (“the principal Regulations”), which provide for the payment, by the Secretary of State, of injury benefits to or in respect of any person engaged in the National Health Service in Scotland whose earning ability is reduced or who dies as a result of an injury suffered or a disease contracted in the course of his or her duties. They have retrospective effect from 1st October 1998, as authorised by section 12(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972.