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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 353
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1987 No. 353
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987
| Laid before Parliament | 11th March 1987 |
| Coming into force | 1st April 1987 |
The Secretary of State for Social Services, as respects England and Wales, in exercise of powers conferred by section 5 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Public Expenditure and Receipts Act 1968[1] and now vested in him[2], and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the said powers, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:— Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Accidents (Payments for Treatment) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st April 1987.
(2) In this Order"the Act" means the Road Traffic Act 1972[3].
Maximum payments for hospital treatment of traffic casualties
2. Subject to article 4 of this Order, in the proviso to section 154(1) of the Act[4] (maximum amounts of payments under the subsection by authorised insurers or owners of vehicles for hospital treatment of traffic casualties as in-patients or out-patients) for the sum of £1,892.50 there shall be substituted the sum of £2,000.37, and for the sum of £189.25 there shall be substituted the sum of £200.04. Payments for emergency treatment of traffic casualties
3. Subject to article 4 of this Order, in section 155(1) of the Act[4] (payments by users of vehicles of fees and mileage allowances in respect of emergency treatment) for the sum of £14.19 there shall be substituted the sum of £15.00, and for the sum of 28 pence there shall be substituted the sum of 29 pence. Application
4. The Order shall apply only where an accident giving rise to death or bodily injury in respect of which a payment is made under section 154 of the Act, or claimed under section 155 of the Act, occurred on or after the coming into force of this Order. Revocations
5. The Orders specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services
Edwina Currie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security
3rd March 1987
Glenarthur
Minister of State, Scottish Office
5th March 1987
Notes:[1] 1968 c. 14; Schedule 3, paragraph 8 was amended by Schedule 10, paragraph 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20) so as to substitute in the said paragraph 8 references to sections 154 and 155 of the said Act of 1972.
[2] See the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699), article 2.
[3] 1972 c. 20.
[4] Sections 154(1) and 155(1) were last amended as respects England and Wales by S.I. 1986/368 and as respects Scotland by S.I. 1986/408.
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