Type and amount of rate of disablement benefit

(1) Where the extent of disablement is assessed as amounting to less than twenty–five per cent, disablement benefit shall be a lump sum (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “disablement grant”). (2) Where the extent of disablement is assessed for the period taken into account as amounting to twenty–five per cent or more, disablement benefit shall be a periodical payment (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “disablement pension”) for that period: Provided that where that period is limited by reference to a definite date, the pension shall cease on the death of the beneficiary before that date. (3) The disablement grant under paragraph (1) and disablement pension under paragraph (2) shall be payable at the appropriate amount or appropriate weekly rate determined in accordance with the First Schedule.