The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

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

Made

28th March 1991

Coming into force

15th April 1991

Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament inaccordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979(1) and was approved by resolution of each House ofParliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Security with theconsent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 and of all other powersenabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979Statutory Sum Order 1991 and shall come into force on 15th April 1991.

Statement of the statutory sum for the purposes of the VaccineDamage Payments Act 1979

2.  For the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 thestatutory 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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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

(1)

1979 c. 17; section 1 was amended by section 23 of theSocial Security Act 1985 (c. 53).

(2)

S.I. 1985/1249.