Date of development of disease

(1) For the purpose of a first claim in respect of a prescribed disease suffered by a person, the date on which he develops the disease (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “the date of development”) shall be determined in accordance with the following provisions of this Regulation, and save as provided in Regulation 60, that date shall be treated as the date of development for the purpose of any subsequent claim in respect of the same disease suffered by the same person: Provided that– (a) any date of development determined for the purpose of that claim shall not preclude fresh consideration of the question whether the same person is suffering from the same disease on any subsequent claim for or award of benefit; and (b) if, on the consideration of a claim, no award of benefit is made, any date of development determined for the purpose of that claim shall be disregarded for the purpose of any subsequent claim. (2) Whereafter the appointed day, the claim for the purpose of which the date of development is to be determined isSocial Security 101 (a) a claim for injury benefit the date of development shall be the first day on which the claimant was incapable of work as a result of the disease; (b) a claim for disablement benefit, the date of development shall be the day on which the claimant first suffered from the relevant loss of faculty; (c) a claim for death benefit, the date of development shall be the date of death.