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Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951

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Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to provide for the payment of allowances out of the Industrial Injuries Fund with a view to supplementing workmen's compensation where the accident happened before nineteen twenty-four, and for purposes connected therewith.
Citation14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 22
Dates
Royal assent21 March 1951

The Workmen's Compensation (Supplementation) Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 22) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed during the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It tackled the problem of the "pre-1924" compensation cases by enabling supplementary weekly allowances to be paid to workmen who had suffered workplace injuries from before 1924 in order to bring their compensation broadly to the same level as that payable to "post-1923" men.[1]

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  1. ^ "Workmen's Compensation and Benefit (Amendment) Bill: 19 Nov 1965: House of Commons debates". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 18 September 2011.