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[CITE: 42USC300aa-33]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                        SUBCHAPTER XIX--VACCINES
 
          Part 2--National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
 
                      subpart d--general provisions
 
Sec. 300aa-33. Definitions

    For purposes of this part:
        (1) The term ``health care provider'' means any licensed health 
    care professional, organization, or institution, whether public or 
    private (including Federal, State, and local departments, agencies, 
    and instrumentalities) under whose authority a vaccine set forth in 
    the Vaccine Injury Table is administered.
        (2) The term ``legal representative'' means a parent or an 
    individual who qualifies as a legal guardian under State law.
        (3) The term ``manufacturer'' means any corporation, 
    organization, or institution, whether public or private (including 
    Federal, State, and local departments, agencies, and 
    instrumentalities), which manufactures, imports, processes, or 
    distributes under its label any vaccine set forth in the Vaccine 
    Injury Table, except that, for purposes of section 300aa-28 of this 
    title, such term shall include the manufacturer of any other vaccine 
    covered by that section. The term ``manufacture'' means to 
    manufacture, import, process, or distribute a vaccine.
        (4) The term ``significant aggravation'' means any change for 
    the worse in a preexisting condition which results in markedly 
    greater disability, pain, or illness accompanied by substantial 
    deterioration of health.
        (5) The term ``vaccine-related injury or death'' means an 
    illness, injury, condition, or death associated with one or more of 
    the vaccines set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, except that the 
    term does not include an illness, injury, condition, or death 
    associated with an adulterant or contaminant intentionally added to 
    such a vaccine.
        (6)(A) The term ``Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines'' 
    means the Commission established under section 300aa-19 of this 
    title.
        (B) The term ``Vaccine Injury Table'' means the table set out in 
    section 300aa-14 of this title.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXI, Sec. 2133, as added Pub. L. 99-660, 
title III, Sec. 311(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3778.)
