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The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991

S.I. 1991/939 · Made 28 March 1991

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PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

Made 28th March 1991

Coming into force 15th April 1991

Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament inaccordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979f1 and was approved by resolution of each House ofParliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security with theconsent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and of all other powersenabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1979 c. 17; section 1 was amended by section 23 of theSocial Security Act 1985 (c. 53).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Statement of the statutory sum for the purposes of the VaccineDamage Payments Act 1979
  3. 3Revocation
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979Statutory Sum Order 1991 and shall come into force on 15th April 1991.

2Statement of the statutory sum for the purposes of the VaccineDamage Payments Act 1979

For the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 thestatutory sum is £30,000.

3Revocation

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1985f1 is hereby revoked.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Henley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

28th March 1991

We consent,

Thomas Sackville

Sydney Chapman

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

28th March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases from £20,000 to £30,000 the sum which ispayable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 wherethe Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom aclaim for payment is first made on or after 15th April 1991 is, or wasimmediately before his death, severely disabled as a result ofvaccination against any disease to which that Act applies. Regulation 3contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of thisOrder.