Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007

Cost of medical care — amendments.

10.— The Principal Act is amended—

(a) in section 39(1), by substituting the following for paragraph (f):

“(f) occupational injuries benefit comprising injury benefit, disablement benefit and death benefit,”,

(b) in section 86—

(i) by deleting subsection (5), and

(ii) in subsection (6), by substituting “Where a person makes a claim for the cost of medical care under this section” for “Where notice is given under subsection (5)”,

(c) in section 240, in the definition of “benefit”, by inserting the following after paragraph (a):

“(aa) the cost of medical care under section 86,”,

and

(d) in section 241(2), by inserting the following after paragraph (a):

“(aa) in the case of medical care, in respect of any period more than 12 months before the date on which the claim is made,”.