SCHEDULE 3Minor, consequential and supplemental provisions

Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979

33.

In section 4 (appeals to appeal tribunals) as it has effect after the commencement of section 57(2) of, and paragraph 1(2) and (3) of Schedule 7 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2007—

(a)

in subsection (1A)—

(i)

for “In subsection (1) the reference” substitute “In this section any reference”; and

(ii)

in paragraph (b) for “an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Social Security Act 1998” substitute “the First-tier Tribunal”;

(b)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

for “an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Social Security Act 1998” substitute “the First-tier Tribunal”; and

(ii)

omit paragraph (b) (together with the “and” immediately before it); and

(c)

in subsection (4) for “an appeal tribunal” substitute “an appropriate appeal tribunal”.