{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/section-7B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979/section-7B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/17",
  "legislation_title": "Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-act-1979",
  "path": "section/7B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": "Finality of decisions.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and article 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Regulatory Reform (Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979) Order 2002 (modifications of this Act in relation to transitional claims) , any decision made in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be final.\n(2) If and to the extent that regulations so provide, any finding of fact or other determination embodied in or necessary to such a decision, or on which such a decision is based, shall be conclusive for the purposes of—\n(a) further such decisions;\n(b) decisions made in accordance with sections 8 to 16 of the Social Security Act 1998, or with regulations under section 11 of that Act; and\n(c) decisions made under the Child Support Act 1991.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7B 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. 86(1), 87, Sch. 7 para. 8; 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. 7B(1) inserted (16.6.2002) by The Regulatory Reform (Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/1592), art. 5 (with. art. 4, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1991 c.48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/17/section/7B",
    "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."
}