The Regulatory Reform (Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979) Order 2002

Whereas—

1. (a)

   the Secretary of State is of the opinion that this Order does not remove any necessary protection or prevent any person from continuing to exercise any right or freedom which he might reasonably expect to continue to exercise;

2. (b)

   the Secretary of State has consulted such organisations as appeared to him to be representative of interests substantially affected by the proposals, the Law Commission, the National Assembly for Wales and such other persons as he considered appropriate;

3. (c)

   following that consultation, the Secretary of State considered it appropriate to proceed with the making of this Order;

4. (d)
   a document containing the Secretary of State’s proposals was laid before Parliament as required by section 6 of the Regulatory Reform Act 20011 and the period for Parliamentary consideration under section 8 of that Act has expired;
5. (e)
   the Secretary of State has had regard to the representations made during this period, in particular to the Fifteenth Report of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee2 and the Ninth Report of the Deregulation and Regulatory Reform Committee3;
6. (f)

   a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament with a statement giving details of such representations and Reports and of the changes to the Secretary of State’s proposals in the light of them;

7. (g)

   the draft was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament: