Road Traffic Accident (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1995/889 |
1995 No. 889
Road Traffic
The Road Traffic Accident (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995
Made 27th March 1995
Laid before Parliament 27th March 1995
Coming into force 17th April 1995
The Secretary of State for Health, as respects England and Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by section 5 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 19681and now vested in her2, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of those powers, and, in each case, in exercise of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—
Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 17th April 1995.
(2) This Order shall apply in relation to any case where, on or after 17th April 1995—
(a)
(a) treatment is first received for the purposes of section 157(1)(a) of the Act, or
(b)
(b) treatment or an examination is effected for the purposes of section 158(1) of the Act.
(3) In this Order “the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 19883.
Maximum payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties
2. In section 157(2) of the Act (maximum amounts of payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualities) for the sum of £2,856.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £2,949.00, and the sum of £286.00 there shall be substituted the sum of £295.00.
Payment for emergency treatment of traffic casualties
3. In section 158(2) of the Act (payments by users of vehicles of fees and mileage allowances to practitioners in respect of emergency treatment) for the sum of £20.65 there shall be substituted the sum of £21.30, and for the sum of 40 pence there shall be substituted the sum of 41 pence.
Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
24th March 1995
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Scottish Office
27th March 1995
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the amounts payable under sections 157(2) and 158(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988. Section 157 provides for payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties to be made by an owner or insurer of a vehicle the use of which gave rise to the injuries, and...
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