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2008 No. 2103
Public Health
The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2008
Made
5th August 2008
Laid before Parliament
8th August 2008
Coming into force
1st September 2008
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(2)(i) and 2(2) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979(1).
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 1st September 2008.
(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979.
Addition to the diseases to which the Act applies
2. Human papillomavirus is specified as a disease to which the Act applies.
Modification of conditions of entitlement
3. The condition of entitlement in section 2(1)(b) of the Act (age or time at which vaccination was carried out) shall be omitted in relation to vaccination against human papillomavirus.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
James Plaskitt
Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
5th August 2008
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 2 of this Order adds human papillomavirus to the diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies. Article 3 modifies the condition of entitlement in section 2(1)(b) of that Act so that it is not a condition in relation to human papillomavirus that the vaccinated person was under eighteen at the time the vaccination was given or that there was an outbreak of the disease within the United Kingdom or Isle of Man at that time.
A full impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as it has no impact on the private and voluntary sectors.
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