1998 No. 1587

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998

Made

Coming into force

Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1 (4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 19791 and was approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

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

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Statutory sum for the purposes of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 19792

For the purposes of section 1 (1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 the statutory sum is £40,000.

Revocation3

The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 19912 is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Patricia HollisParliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department of Social Security

We consent,

Bob AinsworthJohn McFallTwo of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases from £30,000 to £40,000 the sum which is payable under section 1(1) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person in respect of whom a claim for payment is first made on or after the date of this Order coming into force is, or was immediately before his death, severely disabled as a result of vaccination against any disesase to which that Act applies. Article 3 contains a revocation consequent upon the coming into force of this Order.

This Order does not impose a charge on business.