# The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991, Note: 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/939/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979-statutory-sum-order-1991/note
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