{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-specified-disease-order-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-specified-disease-order-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vaccine-damage-payments-specified-disease-order-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order adds (1) rotavirus and (2) influenza, other than influenza caused by a pandemic influenza virus, to the list of diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies.\nIt modifies the condition of entitlement in section 2(1)(a)(ii) of that Act so that in relation to vaccination against rotavirus, the vaccination must have been carried out on or after 1st July 2013, and in relation to influenza, other than influenza caused by a pandemic influenza virus, the vaccination must have been carried out on or after 1st September 2013.\nIt also modifies the condition of entitlement in section 2(1)(b) of that Act so that the only condition of entitlement under that paragraph is that the vaccinated person was aged under 18 at the time the vaccination was given.\nA full impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/47/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:59.494391+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."
}