Explanatory note

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.