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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979-statutory-sum-order-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/939",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979-statutory-sum-order-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nPUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND\nMade 28th March 1991\nComing into force 15th April 1991\nWhereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament inaccordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and was approved by resolution of each House ofParliament:\nNow, 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:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 17; section 1 was amended by section 23 of theSocial Security Act 1985 (c. 53)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/939/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}