{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-regulations-1979/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-regulations-1979/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/432",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaccine Damage Payments Regulations 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-regulations-1979",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Obligations of disabled person",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, every disabled person in respect of whom a claim has been made under section 3 of the Act shall comply with every notice given to him or, where he is not the claimant, to the claimant by the Secretary of State which requires such disabled person to submit himself to a medical examination either by a medical practitioner appointed by the Secretary of State or by an appeal tribunal for the purpose of determining whether he is severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any of the diseases to which the Act applies.\n(2) Every notice given under the preceding paragraph shall be given in writing and shall specify the time and place of examination and shall not require the disabled person to submit himself to examination before the expiration of the period of fourteen days beginning with the date of the notice or such shorter period as may be reasonable in the circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (18.10.1999) by The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals), Vaccine Damage Payments and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2677), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/432/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:19:26.684515+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."
}