Liability for Covid-19 vaccine side effects (FOI)

Request

A

Who (including bodies corporate or others) in or on the Island of Jersey and the Jersey States Assembly are liable for any adverse reactions or any side effects caused by what is commonly known as the Covid-19 vaccine?

B

Who (including bodies corporate or others) in or on Island of Jersey and States of Jersey Assembly own the liability for any adverse reactions or any side effects caused by what is commonly known as the Covid-19 vaccine?

Response

A and B

The scheduled public authority can neither confirm or deny that Government of Jersey holds this information. Therefore Article 10 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Articles applied to this request

Article 10 - Obligation of scheduled public authority to confirm or deny holding information

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if –

(a) a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority; and

(b) the authority does not hold the information,

it must inform the applicant accordingly

(2) If a person makes a request for information to a scheduled public authority and –

(a) the information is absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information; or

(b) if the authority does not hold the information, the information would be absolutely exempt information or qualified exempt information if it had held it, the authority may refuse to inform the applicant whether or not it holds the information if it is satisfied that, in all the circumstances of the case, it is in the public interest to do so.

(3) If a scheduled public authority so refuses –

(a) it shall be taken for the purpose of this Law to have refused to supply the information requested on the ground that it is absolutely exempt information; and

(b) it need not inform the applicant of the specific ground upon which it is refusing the request or, if the authority does not hold the information, the specific ground upon which it would have refused the request had it held the information.