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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1169",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaccine Damage Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nPUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND\nMade 6th July 1988\nLaid before Parliament 11th July 1988\nComing into force 1st August 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 4(1) and 8(1) and (2) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with the Council on Tribunals in accordance with section 10 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 62; Part I of Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 is applied to vaccine damage tribunals by S.I. 1979/659, Article 2."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1169/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}