Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1983
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND
The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000
Made
21st July 2000
Coming into force
22nd July 2000
Whereas a draft of the following Order was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 1(4A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979( 1 ) 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 him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 2000 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 1979
2. For the purposes of section 1(1A) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 the statutory sum is £100,000.
Revocation
3. The Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 Statutory Sum Order 1998( 2 ) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security
Hugh Bayley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
20th July 2000
We consent,
Jim Dowd
Clive J. C. Betts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
21st July 2000
1979 c. 17 ; section 1 was amended by section 23 of the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53) .
S.I. 1998/1587 .