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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2006 No. 2066

PUBLIC HEALTH

The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2006

  Made 25th July 2006 
  Laid before Parliament 1st August 2006 
  Coming into force 4th September 2006 

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

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 4th September 2006.

Addition to the diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies
     2. Pneumococcal infection is specified as a disease to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies.



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


Anne C McGuire
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions

25th July 2006


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order adds pneumococcal infection to the diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 applies.

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

Notes:

 [1] 1979 c.17.back


ISBN 0 11 074948 0


 © Crown copyright 2006

Prepared 1 August 2006

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