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Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 1983

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2000 No. 1983


PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES


PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND


PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND


The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000


 Made21st July 2000 
 Coming into force22nd July 2000 

Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979[1] and was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

    Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Statutory sum for the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979
    2.For the purposes of section 1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 the statutory sum is Ј100,000.

Revocation
    3.The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998[2] is hereby revoked.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security


Hugh Bayley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

20th July 2000



We consent,


Jim Dowd

Clive J. C. Betts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

21st July 2000



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order increases from Ј40,000 to Ј100,000 the sum which is payable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 when the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a claim for payment is made on or after the date of this Order coming into force is, or was immediately before his death, severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any disease to which that Act applies. Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.


Notes:

[1] 1979 c. 17; section 1 was amended by section 23 of the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53).back

[2] S.I. 1998/1587.back



ISBN 0 11 099623 2


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