Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 939

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991

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1991 No. 939

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991

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 1991 and shall come into force on 15th April 1991.

Statement of the statutory sum for the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979
    2.    For the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 the statutory sum is £30,000.

Revocation
    3.    The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1985^[2] is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Henley

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

28th March 1991
We consent,

Thomas Sackville

Sydney Chapman

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

28th March 1991

This Order increases from £20,000 to £30,000 the sum which is payable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a claim for payment is first made on or after 15th April 1991 is, or was immediately before his death, severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any disease to which that Act applies. Regulation 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

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

[2] S.I. 1985/1249. back