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The Vaccine Damage Payments Regulations 1979

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PART IVRECONSIDERATION

Application for reconsideration under section 5 of the Act

11.—(1) An application for reconsideration of a determination may be made to the Secretary of State within 6 years of the date of the notice of that determination and shall be made in writing stating the grounds of the application.

(2) Where the Secretary of State of his own motion institutes a reconsideration of a determination he shall give notice in writing of his intention to the person who was the claimant in relation to the claim which gives rise to the reconsideration and also, where the disabled person is alive and was not the claimant, to him and any such reconsideration shall, subject to paragraph (3) of this regulation, be instituted within 6 years of the date of the notice of that determination.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of this regulation, where it appears to the Secretary of State that a payment was made in consequence of a mis-representation or failure to disclose any material fact he may institute a reconsideration of a determination at any time.

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