The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) (Revocation and Savings) Order 2010

Made: 3rd August 2010

Laid before Parliament: 10th August 2010

Coming into force: 1st September 2010

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by sections 1(2)(i) and 2(2) of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) (Revocation and Savings) Order 2010 and comes into force on 1st September 2010.

2

The “2009 Order” means the Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2009[^f00002].

Revocation

3

Subject to article (4), the 2009 Order is revoked.

Savings

4

The 2009 Order shall continue to apply to any vaccination administered prior to the date this Order comes into force.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

C. Grayling — Minister of State, — Department for Work and Pensions — 3rd August 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order revokes the Vaccine Damage Payment (Specified Disease) Order 2009 which added influenza caused by the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus (“swine flu”) to the diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies. The Order also ensures that protection under the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 continues to apply to any person who receives the vaccination before the date the revocation takes effect.

A full impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as it has no impact on business, charities or voluntary bodies.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1979 c.17.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2009/2516.