# The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000

Draft 2000, ISBN 0110994825

This Order increases from £40,000 to £100,000 the sum which is payable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 when the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a claim for payment is made on or after the date of this Order coming into force is, or was immediately before his death, severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any disease to which that Act applies. Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

Made under: Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 (Section 1)

## Introductory text

Draft Order laid before Parliament under section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND
Made 2000
Coming into force 2000
Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

## 2 Statutory sum for the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979

For the purposes of section 1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 the statutory sum is £100,000.

## 3 Revocation

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998 is hereby revoked.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
2000
We consent,
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
2000

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases from £40,000 to £100,000 the sum which is payable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 when the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a claim for payment is made on or after the date of this Order coming into force is, or was immediately before his death, severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any disease to which that Act applies. Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.
This Order does not impose a charge on business.

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