The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020
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.
Lifecycle
Department
Made
02 Dec 2020
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In force
31 Dec 2020
Enabling power
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.
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