Statutory Instruments
Public Health
Made
2nd December 2020
Laid before Parliament
3rd December 2020
Coming into force
31st December 2020
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 1979(1).
1.—(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.
2. COVID-19 is specified as a disease to which the Act applies.
3. 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 Zahawi
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Health and Social Care
2nd December 2020
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 2 of this Order adds COVID-19 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 COVID-19 that the vaccinated person was under eighteen at the time the vaccination was given nor that there was an outbreak of the disease within the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man at that time.
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