{"id":"DUT-FED-027","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health and Human Services (Alex M. Azar II)","authority":"42 U.S.C. 247d-6d(b)","instrument":"Fourth Amendment to the Declaration Under the PREP Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 and Republication of the Declaration, 85 Fed. Reg. 79190","title":"Fourth Amendment to the Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 and Republication of the Declaration","dateIssued":"2020-12-03","effective":"2020-12-03 (effective through Oct. 1, 2024 as then stated)","end":"amended further in 2021 (Fifth through Tenth Amendments)","startDate":"2020-12-03","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER","VAX"],"addressees":["covered persons under the Declaration"],"clause":"(g) Makes explicit in Section IX that there can be situations where not administering a covered countermeasure to a particular individual can fall within the PREP Act and this Declaration\u0027s liability protections.... liability protections for all Covered Countermeasures... used in accordance with the public health and medical response of the Authority Having Jurisdiction...","enforcement":"loss of immunity outside the Declaration\u0027s conditions","functions":[],"notes":"Republished the whole Declaration with the program-planner definition and the Section VII condition (activities authorized in accordance with the public-health and medical response of the Authority Having Jurisdiction), and extended coverage to purposeful allocation decisions made under the public-health authorities\u0027 guidance; the shield followed compliance with that guidance. Character as recorded: liability_shield_condition (declaration amendment).","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-12-09/pdf/2020-26977.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":283760,"grade":"primary","character":"liability_shield_condition","description":"","collection":"DUT-FED","url":"/library/DUT-FED-027","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-FED-027","citation":"Secretary of Health and Human Services (Alex M. Azar II), Fourth Amendment to the Declaration Under the PREP Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 and Republication of the Declaration, 85 Fed. Reg. 79190 (Dec. 3, 2020) (Ex. DUT-FED-027)","stateName":"","related":["DUT-FED-025"]}