2020 No. 1411
Public Health
The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(2)(i) and 2(2) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 19791.
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020 and comes into force on 31st December 2020.
2
In this Order “the Act” means the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979.
Addition to the list of diseases to which the Act applies2
COVID-19 is specified as a disease to which the Act applies.
Modification of condition of entitlement3
The condition of entitlement in section 2(1)(b) of the Act (age or time at which vaccination was carried out) is omitted in relation to vaccination against COVID-19.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Nadhim ZahawiParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment of Health and Social Care
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)