(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 (“the Act”). 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 injury, and section 158 for payments to be made by the person using such a vehicle for emergency treatment and a medical practitioner’s travelling expenses.
The maximum amounts payable for hospital treatment are increased from £2,667.00 to £2,780.00 for persons treated as in-patients, and from £267.00 to £278.00 for persons treated as out-patients.
For emergency treatment, the fee is increased from £19.30 to £20.10. For travelling expenses, the amount for each mile in excess of two covered by a practitioner to provide such treatment is increased from 37 pence to 39 pence.
The increases apply in relation to any case where, on or after 1st November 1992, treatment is first received for the purposes of section 157(1)(a) of the Act, or treatment or an examination is effected for the purposes of section 158(1) of the Act.