1995 No. 889
The Road Traffic Accident (Payments for Treatment) Order 1995
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
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 19681 and 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 interpretation1
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
treatment is first received for the purposes of section 157(1)(a) of the Act, or
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 1988 3.
Maximum payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties2
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 casualties3
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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
(This note is not part of the Order)