23 Vaccine damage payments. U.K.
In section 1 of the M1Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979—
(a)in subsection (1), for “£10,000” there shall be substituted “the relevant statutory sum”;
(b)the following subsection shall be inserted after that subsection—
“(1A)In subsection (1) above “statutory sum” means £10,000 or such other sum as is specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Act by order made by statutory instrument with the consent of the Treasury; and the relevant statutory sum for the purposes of that subsection is the statutory sum at the time when a claim for payment is first made.”; and
(c)the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (4)—
“(4A)No order shall be made by virtue of subsection (1A) above unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and been approved by a resolution of each House.”.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 1, 6, 8(2)(3), 14, 21, 23–25, Sch. 1, Sch. 2 and Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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