{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/section-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/section-7A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/17",
  "legislation_title": "Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979",
  "path": "section/7A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Correction of errors and setting aside of decisions.",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision with respect to—\n(a) the correction of accidental errors in any decision or record of a decision under section 3 or 3A of this Act; . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as derogating from any power to correct errors . . . which is exercisable apart from regulations made by virtue of that subsection.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7A inserted (4.3.1999 for certain purposes, 18.10.1999 insofar as not already in force for certain purposes and otherwise prosp. ) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 47, 87; S.I. 1999/528, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 1999/2860, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 16-18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7A(1) substituted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 9(1), Sch. 3 para. 34(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 7A(1)(b) and preceding word omitted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 9(1), Sch. 3 para. 34(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 7A(2) omitted (3.11.2008) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2833), art. 9(1), Sch. 3 para. 34(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/17/section/7A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:18:22.974426+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."
}