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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979-statutory-sum-order-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979-statutory-sum-order-1991/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/939/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:00.447769+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}