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EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Work and Pensions, are
published separately as Bill 100—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a)
of the Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Mesothelioma Bill [HL] are compatible with the
Convention rights.

Contents

  1. Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme

    1. 1. Power to establish the scheme

  2. Eligibility

    1. 2. Eligible people with diffuse mesothelioma

    2. 3. Eligible dependants

  3. Payments and procedure

    1. 4. Payments

    2. 5. Applications and procedure

    3. 6. Reviews and appeals

  4. Scheme administration

    1. 7. Scheme administration

    2. 8. Unauthorised disclosure of information: offence

    3. 9. Unauthorised disclosure of information: penalties etc

  5. Recovery of payments etc

    1. 10. Power of scheme administrator to help people bring proceedings

    2. 11. Recovery of benefits etc from payments and recovery of payments

  6. Relationship with other legislation

    1. 12. Exclusion of payments under other legislation

  7. Levy on insurers

    1. 13. The levy

    2. 14. Collecting information for purposes of levy

  8. Insurance disputes

    1. 15. Technical Committee to decide certain insurance disputes

    2. 16. Challenging decisions of the Technical Committee

  9. General

    1. 17. Regulations under this Act

    2. 18. Defined terms used in more than one section of this Act

    3. 19. Commencement

    4. 20. Extent

    5. 21. Short title

    1. Schedule 1

      Recovery of benefits etc from payments and recovery of
      payments

      1. Part 1

        Recovery of benefits etc from scheme payments

      2. Part 2

        Recovery of scheme payments from compensation

      3. Part 3

        Information sharing

    2. Schedule 2

      Exclusion of payments under other legislation

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